Daily Dino Fact: The real life Little Foot
Enjoy walking on two legs while you can, little sauropod
Q: What was the smallest sauropod? -Screechie
A: Great question Screechie! When we think of the long-necked sauropods we usually thing of these giant, thundering creatures. Certainly, the sauropods were the largest animals to have ever walked the Earth. When you think of “largest” in dinosaurs, it almost always involves a sauropod. However, these guys had pretty humble beginnings. I present to you Anchisaurus, picture above.
Anchisaurus was a teeny guy by sauropod standards with about 7.9 ft (2.4m) in length and weighing about 60 lbs. This dino lived in the Early Jurassic and was discovered before anyone knew anything about dinosaurs (the collectors suspected they were human bones based on the size). Anchisaurus was also possibly the first dinosaur ever found in North America.
The famed Paleontologist O.C. Marsh described and renamed the dinosaur in 1885. Incredible though isn’t it? I think sometimes we forget that dinosaurs existed for MILLIONS and MILLIONS of years. Over that period of time they could evolve from the relatively small Anchisaurus to the lumbering giants like Argentinosaurus. You gotta love that!
-Rex
Tags: anchisaurus, Daily Dino Fact, Dinosaurs, sauropod, smallest sauropod, webosaurs
January 5th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
what dino group was the stegosaur part of?
January 5th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Oh yea banabuhbunbah I’m lovin’ it! (mcdonalds slogan)
~betatestuser
January 5th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Rex on jan. 8 it will be my B-Day! can you make a birthday card and put it on the blog? thanks!
-Gigorn
January 5th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
That is awsome!!
January 5th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
I have a Q
Was There ny Dino More Carnivourus Then The T-Rex
January 5th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Who was the coolest dinosaur? – Swift
January 5th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
cool i never knew that rex i never did.i hope i can b the next new pro…..
~faiththethird
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January 5th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Did the breakage of Pagnea cause dinosaurs to go extinct?
January 5th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
That is… really little foot! So small compared to other dinosaurs!
But is a velociraptor smaller than a Anchisaurus? (筒)
January 6th, 2010 at 1:20 am
What was the smallest theropod? Irvine
Irvine
January 6th, 2010 at 2:58 am
Nice,But Iganodon can walk on two legs or four legs in any age,but this sauropod will like to stay walking on two legs all the time before he wont be able to do it!
January 6th, 2010 at 4:50 am
What was the smallest Theropod?
January 6th, 2010 at 10:18 am
What was the earliest tyrannosaur known?
January 7th, 2010 at 9:37 am
what dino had the sharpest teeth?
-whitefangs