Meaning | Very large herbivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a small head a long neck and tail and five-toed limbs; largest known land animal. |
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Synonym | sauropod dinosaur |
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Member of | Sauropoda, suborder Sauropoda | Any of the sauropod dinosaurs |
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Narrower | apatosaur, apatosaurus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard, Apatosaurus excelsus | huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic |
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barosaur, barosaurus | A dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall |
Broader | saurischian, saurischian dinosaur | herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile |
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