noun
- extinct long-necked dinosaurs that were ancestors or close relatives of the sauropods, living during the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic periods
Usage: paleontology
Examples
- Prosauropods were among the first large plant-eating dinosaurs.
- The museum’s fossil collection includes several prosauropod specimens.
- Scientists study prosauropods to understand the evolution of sauropods.
- Prosauropods had longer necks than most other dinosaurs of their time.
- These prosauropods lived about 200 million years ago.
- The prosauropod fossils were discovered in Argentina.