sauropoda
Sauropoda were enormous, long-necked dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago.
Proper noun A taxonomic infraorder within the order Saurischia. This group consists of the large, herbivorous, quadrupedal dinosaurs characterized by very long necks and tails, small heads, and massive, pillar-like legs. They are commonly known as sauropods.
The term "Sauropoda" is used scientifically to classify a specific clade of dinosaurs. It is always capitalized. * The fossil record indicates that Sauropoda was a highly successful group during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. * Sauropoda includes some of the largest land animals to have ever lived, such as Argentinosaurus and Diplodocus.
- Phylogenetic Context: In modern cladistics, Sauropoda is defined as a stem-based taxon including all saurischians more closely related to than to .
- Adjectival Form: The adjective "sauropod" (lowercase) is derived from Sauropoda and is used to describe characteristics of this group (e.g., sauropod vertebrae, sauropod morphology).
- sauropod (noun): A member of the Sauropoda; any dinosaur of this infraorder.
- The museum's centerpiece is the skeleton of a massive sauropod.
- sauropodan (adjective): Relating to or characteristic of sauropods.
- Sauropods (the common name for members of Sauropoda)
- (There are no direct single-word synonyms for the taxonomic name "Sauropoda")
- Sauropodomorpha: The larger clade that includes Sauropoda and their earlier, bipedal or facultatively bipedal ancestors, the "prosauropods."
- Neosauropoda: A derived subgroup within Sauropoda that includes the majority of well-known families like Diplodocidae and Titanosauria.
Sauropoda were enormous, long-necked dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago.
- any of the sauropod dinosaurs