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Prosauropoda
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Noun1.Prosauropoda - the earliest known dinosaurs
animal order - the order of animals
Sauropodomorpha, suborder Sauropodomorpha - gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having huge bodies with long necks and small heads: Prosauropoda and Sauropoda (apatosaurus, diplodocus and titanosaurs)


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On the other hand the smallest eggs discovered were from prosauropods of South Africa.
There's also a dinosaur-related time line that shows the evolution of plant and animal life as long ago as 250 million years during the Triassic period, when the first dinosaurs began to appear in the form of herds of prosauropods.
That a gradually extended juvenile-growth phase in prosauropods led to the immensity of some later sauropods is "an interesting idea," says Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum in London.
 
 
 
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