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• s  (of animals) feeding on plants

• Among the fossils are skeletal remains of hadrosaurs, plant-eating duck-billed dinosaurs that stood up to 15 ft.
• Three-fourths of the bones were from sauropodslong-necked, long-tailed, plant-eating dinosaurs.
• A primitive plant-eating dinosaur with a small head and a long tail, Anchisaurus grew to about eight feet in length.

• phytophagic
• phytophagous
• phytophilous

News & Articles

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• The Late Jim 'Lizard King' Morrison Gets Giant Extinct Reptile Named After Him
  Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The late rocker Jim Morrison may have been known as “the Lizard King” during his heyday in the late-1960s, but another creature that lived 40 million years ago is being hailed as the “king of lizards.” The lizard, measuring some six feet long and weighing upwards of 60 pounds, was a giant plant-eating reptile that competed with mammals of ...
  June 5, 2013 - redOrbit

Quotes

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• Paul Sereno in Science Daily (press release)
  Falcarius shows the beginning of features we associate with plant-eating dinosaurs, including a reduction in size of meat-cutting teeth to leaf-shredding teeth, the expansion of the gut to a size needed to ferment plants and the early stages of... James Kirkland http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirkland&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFUheVCgtELQorpn0hPytYwBVvIGg BBC News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/2/hi/science/nature/4512487.stm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFv6gmEfU3kxKfERvU0hjwQcVLbqw May 4, 2005 75027 101185 plant-eating The jaws are drawn backward and upward instead of just closing or moving fore and aft," Sereno said. "It remains to be seen whether some other plant-eating dinosaurs or other reptiles had the same mechanism."
• Phil Currie in Times Colonist
  When we learned these plant-eating dinosaurs travelled in big herds, we started assuming tyrannosaurs probably had a good source of feed when they were following the herds. They would just pick off the weak animals,Currie said.