The fossils were first discovered by an expedition led by Jose Bonaparte during the 1970s to the El Tranquilo Formation.[2] There the team found fossilised eggs and hatchlings, which added insight into the reproductive strategies of Mussaurus and other prosauropod dinosaurs.[2] Although the specimens' young biological age gave them proportions that would be highly atypical for an adult prosauropod, that they were indeed prosauropods was easily ascertained by examination of the limbs and pelvic bones.[2]
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| - The fossils were first discovered by an expedition led by Jose Bonaparte during the 1970s to the El Tranquilo Formation.[2] There the team found fossilised eggs and hatchlings, which added insight into the reproductive strategies of Mussaurus and other prosauropod dinosaurs.[2] Although the specimens' young biological age gave them proportions that would be highly atypical for an adult prosauropod, that they were indeed prosauropods was easily ascertained by examination of the limbs and pelvic bones.[2]
- Mussaurus (meaning "mouse lizard") was a genus of herbivorous prosauropod dinosaur that lived in southern Argentina during the Late Triassic Period, about 215 million years ago. It gets its name from the small size of the skeletons discovered so far.
- The mussaurus are small dinosaurs that (usually) eat plants and are related to the sellosaurus and plateosaurus. Their home planet is unknown, but is presumably located somewhere in the Vegetarian Sector. Mutty, a member of Spiny Jim's crew of star pirates, was a presumably renegade mussaurus who had willingly changed into a carnivore.
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- Mussaurus patagonicus
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| - The fossils were first discovered by an expedition led by Jose Bonaparte during the 1970s to the El Tranquilo Formation.[2] There the team found fossilised eggs and hatchlings, which added insight into the reproductive strategies of Mussaurus and other prosauropod dinosaurs.[2] Although the specimens' young biological age gave them proportions that would be highly atypical for an adult prosauropod, that they were indeed prosauropods was easily ascertained by examination of the limbs and pelvic bones.[2]
- The mussaurus are small dinosaurs that (usually) eat plants and are related to the sellosaurus and plateosaurus. Their home planet is unknown, but is presumably located somewhere in the Vegetarian Sector. Mutty, a member of Spiny Jim's crew of star pirates, was a presumably renegade mussaurus who had willingly changed into a carnivore. Real Mussaurus were small prosauropods, early ancestors of sauropods like Diplodocus and Apatosaurus, that lived during the Triassic period, 215 million years ago. It was originally only known from eggs and young, although fossils of adults have been found since then. Mussaurus means "mouse lizard", a reference to the small size (20 to 37 centimetres) of the fossils. Adults reached up to 3 metres in length. Since it is thought that prosauropods, as they were descended from small carnivorous dinosaurs, could eat meat as well as plants, Mutty's diet change makes more sense than it sounds!
- Mussaurus (meaning "mouse lizard") was a genus of herbivorous prosauropod dinosaur that lived in southern Argentina during the Late Triassic Period, about 215 million years ago. It gets its name from the small size of the skeletons discovered so far. However, since Mussaurus is known only from fossilized juvenile and infant skeletons, it is something of a misnomer; adults possibly reached 3 m (10 ft) in length, and weighed 70 kilograms (150 lb). Mussaurus possesses anatomical features suggesting a close, possibly transitional evolutionary relationship with true sauropods. Its evolutionary significance and the light it sheds on prosauropod reproduction make Mussaurus a significant find.
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