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Definition of Sauropoda
1. Noun. Any of the sauropod dinosaurs.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Sauropodomorpha, Suborder Sauropodomorpha
Member holonyms: Sauropod, Sauropod Dinosaur, Genus Apatosaurus, Genus Brontosaurus, Genus Barosaurus, Genus Diplodocus, Family Titanosauridae, Titanosauridae
Definition of Sauropoda
1. n. pl. An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs having the feet of a saurian type, instead of birdlike, as they are in many dinosaurs. It includes the largest known land animals, belonging to Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.
Medical Definition of Sauropoda
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sauropoda
Literary usage of Sauropoda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"This form is perhaps the best known of the sauropoda. The type specimen was found
in the Morrison beds at Como Bluff, near Medicine Bow, Wyoming. ..."
2. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"... THE TIME OF GIGANTIC sauropoda History of the Period. — In the early part of
the past century the European geologists regarded the rocks overlying the ..."
3. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"UNARMORED QUADRUPED DINOSAURS (sauropoda) African Dinosaurs, a Review: Geog.
Jour., Vol. 42, 1913, p. 389. MATTHEW, WD,— The Mounted Skeleton of ..."
4. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1919)
"Natural History on the sauropoda and other dinosaurs. In the first paper the work
on the great monograph of Cope's sauropoda was discussed and in the second ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"sauropoda.—Another, relatively short-lived, race were the amphibious dinosaurs or
... sauropoda were relatively short-lived, existing through part of the ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"It was indeed necessary, on account of the length of the fore limbs, to place
the sauropoda on all four feet; but analogy caused it to be supposed that the ..."
7. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"This form is perhaps the best known of the sauropoda. The type specimen was found
in the Morrison beds at Como Bluff, near Medicine Bow, Wyoming. ..."
8. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"... THE TIME OF GIGANTIC sauropoda History of the Period. — In the early part of
the past century the European geologists regarded the rocks overlying the ..."
9. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"UNARMORED QUADRUPED DINOSAURS (sauropoda) African Dinosaurs, a Review: Geog.
Jour., Vol. 42, 1913, p. 389. MATTHEW, WD,— The Mounted Skeleton of ..."
10. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1919)
"Natural History on the sauropoda and other dinosaurs. In the first paper the work
on the great monograph of Cope's sauropoda was discussed and in the second ..."
11. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"sauropoda.—Another, relatively short-lived, race were the amphibious dinosaurs or
... sauropoda were relatively short-lived, existing through part of the ..."
12. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"It was indeed necessary, on account of the length of the fore limbs, to place
the sauropoda on all four feet; but analogy caused it to be supposed that the ..."
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