SAURISCHIA

Pronounciation: "saw-RISS-kee-a"

Name meaning: "Lizard hip"

Period: late Triassic to late Cratecous

Living place: worldwide

The order Saurischia includes all the meat-eating dinosaurs and the large, long-necked plant-eaters. It is divided into two orders:

- Theropoda (small and large meat-eaters)

- Sauropodomorpha (medium and large plant-eaters)

 

It is belived that these two suborders of Saurischia came from different ancestors, because their distinguishing character, the "lizard hip" was rather primitive.