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The evolution of sauropod feeding mechanisms

2000; Cambridge University Press; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/cbo9780511549717.005

Paul Upchurch, Paul M. Barrett,

Ichthyology and Marine Biology

Sauropods were gigantic, long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs, which dominated many Jurassic and Cretaceous terrestrial faunas. First appearing in the fossil record during the Early Jurassic, they rapidly achieved a nearly global distribution, with apparent peaks in diversity and abundance in the Kimmeridgian, Hauterivian–Barremian, and Campanian–Maastrichtian (McIntosh 1990; Weishampel 1990; Hunt et al. 1994; Barrett 1998).