ERTH 2401 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Camarasaurus, Dicraeosaurus, Giraffatitan

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Earth Sciences
• Course: ERTH 2401
• Professor: Claudia Schroder- Adams

Document Summary

Prosauropods: bipedal walking on hindlimbs, pubis bone backwards, small head, evolutionary radiation in the late triassic early times, thriving with worldwide distribution in the early jurassic including canada, specifically. Early jurassic; dinosaurs could mix b/c no ocean basin to separate them. Auropodo(cid:373)orpha u(cid:374)til (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1007)(cid:1004)"s: north american discoveries; took off with cope and marsh o(cid:374)(cid:272)e agai(cid:374) i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1011)(cid:1004)"s cope. = camarasaurus and marsh = apatosaurus and diplodocus. Most prolific source is the morrison formation, late jurassic in the western us. New sauropods are still being named and discovered; e. g. suuwassea and. No sauropod body fossils yet from canada footprints have been recently found in bc. Morrison formation: no vegetation, desert like areas; large area including multiple states; prime dinosaur grounds. Supersaurus: (cid:862) eis(cid:373)osaurus(cid:863) (cid:374)a(cid:373)ed i(cid:374) the early (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)"s, (cid:373)ay (cid:271)e a (cid:448)ery large i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual of diplodo(cid:272)us. Tiny brains across the species, but were very successful puzzle.