… A test of the effect of body size on potential grit consumption would be to examine the teeth
of a high-browsing sauropod. The lengthy forelimbs of Brachiosaurus, compared with those …

… Moreover, we found that despite its large body size, the basal sauropod Lessemsaurus
exhibits the plesiomorphic sauropodomorph pattern of cyclical growth dynamics. Along with its …

… vertebrae in combination with the presence of pneumatic epithelium is another important
factor for the achievement of extreme body sizes in sauropods. This should therefore be added …

… Modeling of craniodental character and body-mass evolution … Instead, a significant correlation
between body mass and … between body mass and dietary specializations fueling sauropod …

… body size does mean that we would expect considerable locomotor constraints at large body
… should scale adequately up to very large body sizes in the order of 100,000 to 1,000,000 kg …

… the huge sizes attained by many sauropod dinosaurs can … body size becomes an adaptive
advantage, since large home ranges and the ability to travel great distances increase with size…

… Prosauropods are facultative bipeds with a body-size range that overlapsthat of the smallest
sauropods. Despite a temporal range of at least 30 millionyears (Late Triassic through Early …

… body size in sauropods, through the transition from small to mid-sized early sauropodomorphs
(dinosaurs … The lineage of Triassic archosaurs leading to sauropods began as quadrupeds…

… Here we test the hypothesis that mean body size (using femur length as a proxy), is
different between species that exhibit metaplastic projections on the dorsal neural spines and …

… several other sauropods. Several other characters appear to be correlates of large body size
(… ") or are features that are not shared by all sauropods (eg, "tibia compressed side to side," ".…