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Diplodocus

A giant dinosaur from Montana that lived 153 million years ago, weighing as much as four elephants and as long as three school buses.

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Ground Cover (ferns and horsetails)

The primary diet of Diplodocus based on scratch marks found on the teeth.

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Apatosaurus

A 25 metric ton, 23 meter long sauropod that ate mostly ground level plants.

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Camarasaurus

A 15 meter long sauropod that ate tougher shrub sized plants and short trees.

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Size Advantage

An advantage of being big which makes you harder to attack and eat.

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Sauropods

The largest animals that ever walked on land.

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Argentinosaurus

A sauropod from the Cretaceous period of Argentina, which got to be 35 meters long and could have weighed as much as 70 metric tons.

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Sauropodomorphs

The larger group of dinosaurs called sauropod-like dinosaurs.

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Volcanodon

An early Jurassic dinosaur from Zimbabwe that paleontologists think the first sauropods probably looked something like.

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Feeding Envelope

The space within which an animal can reach food without having to move around too much.

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Giraffatitan

A 26 meter long sauropod from Tanzania, estimated to have weighed as much as 78 tons.

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Supersaurus

The longest necked sauropod found so far, with a 15 meter long neck.

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Morrison Formation

The area in Montana where Diplodocus and many other sauropods lived where 10 different genera can be found.