Sauropods

Sauropods were the long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs. They lived mostly during the Jurassic Period and were found just about everywhere there were dinosaurs. This means that the design of the sauropod was very successful. What makes a dinosaur a sauropod? -Long neck and tail -Four pillar-like legs capable of supporting a great weight -Five-toed hands and feet -Small heads with (mostly) peg-like teeth -Plant eater Sauropods were not very smart when you consider that of all the dinosaurs, they had the smallest brain size to body size ratio. They could, however, get very big. Some newer discoveries are approaching 150 feet long and over 100 tons! There are some technical ways to identify a sauropod - 12 or more neck (cervical) vertebrae, an ilium (a pelvic bone) expanded to the back, and at least for sacral vertebrae. Examples of sauropods are Apatosaurus, Seismosaurus and Brachiosaurus.Volkheimeria.Yantaloong.Zigongosaurus