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Is a brachiosaurus lizard-hipped or bird-hipped?
is brachiosaurs in the lizard hipprd or the bird hipped
When referring to dinosaurs what does the term saurischian mean?
lizard-hipped
What do you call bipedal lizard-hipped meat eating dinosaurs?
Bipedal, lizard-hipped, meat eating dinosaurs are all theropods. However, some theropods eventually evolved to eat plants and/or to be bird-hipped.
Which term is given to lizard-hipped dinosaurs?
Saurischians
Which term is given to the lizard-hipped dinosaurs?
Saurischians.
Are dinosaurs classed in different groups?
Yes There is the bird-hipped dinosaurs and the reptile or lizard-hipped dinosaurs. These were further subdivided into smaller groups.
Did the Velociraptor evolve into a bird?
Under current classifications, no. Velociraptor was a very birdlike but not really a bird. However some scientists have suggested that velociraptor and its close relatives were flightless birds.
What do you call bipedal lizard hipped man eating dinosaurs?
There were no man eating dinosaurs, because humans didn't evolve until after dinosaurs died out. Bipedal, lizard-hipped, meat eating dinosaurs were called theropods.
What animal in present day does an apatosaurus closest relate to?
Apatosaurus was a lizard hipped dinosaur. Birds evolved from lizard hipped dinosaurs, and thus they are the closest living relatives of all dinosaurs, including Apatosaurus. All birds are equally related to Apatosaurus.
Is a caudipteryx a lizard hipped dinosaur or a bird hippedd?
Caudipteryx belonged to the Saurischia ("lizard hipped"). But remember: so do birds. Birds have their pubes pointing backwards, just like the Ornithischia ("bird hipped") but they weren't onithischians themselves. So you can be a saurischian whatever the position of your pubes. As it happened Caudipteryx had forward pointing pubes, as typical for Saurischia - but it is not a decisive feature.
What types of dinosours are there?
The main types of dinosaurs were Theropoda, Sauropoda, Ornithopoda (such as hadrosaurs), Marginocephalia (ceratopsians and pachycephalosaurs), and Thyreophora (stegosaurs and ankylosaurs). The first two were lizard hipped, and the rest were bird hipped.
What us the difference between an ornithischian and saurischian?
Okay.Ornothischian dinousaurs had bird-like hips - that is, both the ischium and pubis pointed backwards, like birds hips do. These dinosaurs were smaller herbivores.Saurischian dinosaurs had lizard-like hips - the pubis pointed forwards, and the ischium pointed backwards. All theropods and some very large herbivores had these hips.Ironically, birds evolved from the lizard-hipped dinosaurs, not the bird-hipped ones.
