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	Prosauropoda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prosauropoda or prosauropods were a group of early herbivorous dinosaurs that lived during the Late Triassic and early Jurassic periods.
		The Prosauropoda were originally defined as the early, bipedal, Triassic ancestors of the great sauropod dinosaurs.
		Recent studies of the genus Massospondylus reveal that the Prosauropoda is indeed monophyletic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prosauropoda (700 words)

	DinoData Dinosaurs Mussaurus patagonicus M146 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The temporal fenestrae are of the type present in Prosauropoda, with the triradiate postorbital in a shape similar to that of Anchisaurus (Fig.
		The forelimb suggests clear affinities with Prosauropoda because the morphology and proportions of its distinct bony segments is basically the same as in Plateosaurus (Huene 1907-08) and Riojasaurus (Bonaparte 1971).
		Prosauropoda is known as a fairly uniform infraorder, with very similar osteology in its three traditional families.
	www.dinodata.net /Dd/Namelist/Tabm/M146.htm (2894 words)

	sauropodomorpha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Sauropodomorpha is composed of the sauropods and their basal relatives, known informally as prosauropods, a broad group of in general unaccountably poorly-known early quadrupedal long-necked herbivores.
		Because I believe a "prosauropod" was the ancestor of the sauropods, I do not consider Prosauropoda to be a natural, monophyletic (including all descendants) group, and reserve the term as an informal name for this assortment of MTr-EJ dinosaurs that aren't sauropods but aren't members of another dinosaur group either.
		Part of this stems from the fact that all known prosauropods are older than about 180 million years, reducing the completeness of their record, and part of this stems from the fact that prosauropods are a unique taxonomic quagmire.
	personal2.stthomas.edu /jstweet/sauropodomorpha.htm (2078 words)

	Calamus: June 2005
		Characterized by a number of attributes, Prosauropoda includes such familar and well represented species as Plateosaurus engelhardti, described in 1837 and thus occupying a special place in the history of dinosaur study as among the first dinosaurs to be recovered and described.
		However, given the spotty distribution and preservation of much of the prosauropod material to say nothing of sauropod skeletons, the central plank in the argument that Prosauropoda could not represent a paraphyletic grade giving rise to Sauropoda, was always the fifth metatarsal (this was the case even in 1990).
		It was noted by Cruickshank (1975) that in all prosauropods where it is preserved, the metatarsus displays the derived condition of possessing a vestigial, splint-like fifth metatarsal, whereas in sauropods, the fifth metatarsal is long and prominent, as is the case in the common ancestor Saurischia as a whole.
	calami.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_calami_archive.html (3597 words)

	Prosauropoda: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Prosauropoda or prosauropods were a group of early herbivorous (herbivorous: in zoology, an herbivore is an animal that is adapted to eat primarily plant...
		Recent studies of the genus Massospondylus reveal that the Prosauropoda is indeed monophyletic (monophyletic: in phylogenetics, a group is monophyletic (greek: of one stem) if all organisms...
		Yates, A.M. & Kitching, J. (2003) The earliest known sauropod dinosaur and the first steps towards sauropod locomotion.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/prosauropoda (908 words)

	Sereno's Prosauropoda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		This is one of the bigger (~10m), bulkier, and (inferring from its skeleton) more quadrupedal members of the Prosauropoda.
		Galton (1990, in _The Dinosauria_) regarded _Riojasaurus_ as a melanorosaurid, and one of the more derived prosauropods.
		Sereno mentions the proportionately short neck (compared to other prosauropods) as one of the characters that puts _Riojasaurus_ at the base of the Prosauropoda.
	dml.cmnh.org /1999Jul/msg00108.html (151 words)

	Lecture 12 - Triassic: Keuper, Fleming Fjord
		A number of authors have argued that this "apron-shaped" pubis is a shared derived character for the Prosauropoda, which includes Plateosaurus and a large number of other Triassic and Early Jurassic age dinosaurs, all basically similar in structure to Plateosaurus.
		Plateosaurus is a member of the Sauropodomorpha, the shared derived character for which is a small head with peg-like teeth (3 above).
		It is quite possible, even likely, that the Prosauropoda is actually a paraphyletic group that should be split into smaller monophyletic groups.
	rainbow.ldeo.columbia.edu /courses/v1001/keuper11.html (822 words)

	HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
		Although Hitchcock is famous for assigning many to Omithichnites, or stony-bird tracks, he and his contemporaries also recognized the affinities of many other trackmakers, as in Sauroidichnites (see quotation above).
		Dinosaur tracks were observed by prehistoric peoples who evidently regarded them with interest and sometimes carved their own symbols alongside tracks (Leonardi 1984).
		The accompanying figure of Otozoum moodi from the original 1802 locality represents a problematic trackmaker assigned by Hitchcock to the Amphibia and by subsequent workers to the Prosauropoda and the Pseudosuchia.
	home.att.net /~amcnet3/reprints/lockley5.html (542 words)

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