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How long did the Vulcanodon live?
Vulcanodon was a long-necked dinosaur that lived during the early Jurassic period, about 208 to 201 million years ago….Vulcanodon facts for kids.
| Quick facts for kids Vulcanodon Temporal range: Lower Jurassic | |
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| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Sauropodomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Sauropoda |
What does a Vulcanodon eat?
Vulcanodon must have spent most of its time grazing. It swallowed leaves and other vegetation whole, without chewing them. Its food probably included conifers (which were the dominant plant when the large sauropods lived), gingkos, seed ferns, cycads, bennettitaleans, ferns, club mosses, and horsetails.
What was the first sauropod?
The oldest known unequivocal sauropod dinosaurs are known from the Early Jurassic. Isanosaurus and Antetonitrus were originally described as Triassic sauropods, but their age, and in the case of Antetonitrus also its sauropod status, were subsequently questioned.
Who discovered Vulcanodon?
Michael Raath
Vulcanodon was named by Michael Raath in 1972. The name points to the fact that the skeleton was found in a small body of sandstone that is sandwiched between two lava flows, and emphasizes the peculiar knife-shaped teeth that are now known to belong to a theropod.
How many plates does a Stegosaurus have?
17 plates
But most evidence supports the idea that the plates alternated in two rows, pointy side up from the dinosaur’s neck down to its rear. Its 17 plates, called scutes, were made of a bony material called osteoderms but were not solid; they had lattice-like structures and blood vessels throughout.
What was the biggest animal to ever walk the earth?
Blue whales are the largest animals ever to have lived. They are bigger than even the largest of the dinosaurs. They can grow to be as large as a jumbo jet! The biggest mammal that ever roamed the land was Paraceratherium.
Do Stegosaurus have two brains?
Stegosaurus had one brain just like any other animal with a spine. The space was so large that a second brain would have dwarfed the “main” brain in the animal’s skull! Marsh and other scientists quickly abandoned the idea because its supporting evidence was so poor—no other features of the hip bones helped confirm it.
Did a Stegosaurus have teeth?
Stegosaurus is a genus of armored dinosaur, with large bone plates along its neck, back and tail. It had a very small head and brain. Like most plant-eating dinosaurs, it had no teeth in the front of its mouth, but only a beak. On the sides of the jaws it had tiny, palm-shaped cheek teeth for chewing soft vegetation.