Saurischian dinosaurs: Sauropods

It is strange to think that the huge lumbering sauropods are grouped together with the meat-eating theropods. The reason, as we saw earlier in this section, is that both have similar-shaped hips, a fundamental similarity that sets these two groups apart from the ornithischian, or 'bird hipped' dinosaurs. The sauropods seem to have been most common in the Jurassic period - although many were still found in the Cretaceous, the fossil evidence suggests that there were fewer of them in the last days of the dinosaurs.


Sauropod Leg Bones	Camarosaurus Thigh Bone

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