Description
Jurassic Pet is a collection of Low-Poly animal theme! These models are mobile friendly and ready to use in render & in-game purposes.
The current model is the Pterodactylus Features:
- Low Polygon
- Papercraft like style
- Rigged
- Animations: ♦ idle♦ joyful♦ walk
Name: Massospondylus (longer vertebra).Phonetic: Mas-so-spon-de-lus.Named By: Richard Owen - 1854.Synonyms:Possibly Aetonyx, Aristosaurus, Dromicosaurus, Gyposaurus, Hortalotarsus, Ignavusaurus, Leptospondylus, Pachyspondylus.Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Plateosauria, Massopoda, Massospondylidae.Species: M. carinatus (type), M. kaalae.Diet: Herbivore?Size: Between 4 and 6 meters long.Known locations: Lesotho - Upper Elliot Formation, South Africa - Clarens Formation, Upper Elliot Formation, and Zimbabwe - Forest Sandstone Formation, Mpandi Formation, Upper Karroo Sandstone Formation.Time period: Hettangian to Pliensbachian of the Jurassic.Fossil representation: Many individuals.
Massospondylus was one amongst the first dinosaurs to be named with a taxonomic history going back as far as the mid nineteenth century. Yet when Richard Owen described the first fossils, he thought that he was dealing with an ancient ancestor to more familiar lizards such as iguanas chameleons. In actuality Massospondylus represents a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur, a group of dinosaurs that links the later sauropods to their bipedal saurischian ancestors. Partly due to its long age and also a lack of understanding about dinosaurs in the early years of palaeontology, Massospondylus ended up with more fossil material than was necessary, resulting in a large number of species being established for the genus. Studies by later palaeontologists however have now found that many of these species actually represent other genera, leaving only the type species M. carinatus, as well as one other species M. kaalae being valid as of 2014. Some other genera of sauropodomorph dinosaurs have also been considered to be synonyms to Massospondylus, though opinions as to which are correct varies between different palaeontologists.
