What did a Diplodocus eat?

What did they eat? They were plant eaters with peg like teeth, perfect for stripping the leaves from ferns. This video from the BBC will tell you more about their diet. It would have eaten trees, bushes, cycads, gingkoes and ferns.

1. Does a Diplodocus eat meat?
2. How much did a Diplodocus eat?
3. What were Diplodocus predators?
4. Did Diplodocus have teeth?
5. Did T Rex eat Diplodocus?
6. Did Diplodocus lay eggs?
7. Is a Diplodocus a vegetarian?
8. What did titanosaurus eat?
9. Why did Diplodocus eat all day long?
10. What are Diplodocus good for?
11. Was Diplodocus a carnivore or herbivore?
12. What dinosaurs had 500 teeth?
13. Why doesn't the mother Diplodocus lay her eggs inside the forest?
14. Which body part of the Diplodocus is still a mystery?
15. How big was a Diplodocus egg?

Does a Diplodocus eat meat?

The shape of the teeth can tell a scientist a lot about the type of food that dinosaurs ate. The teeth of Velociraptor are sharp, pointed and curved. This suggests that Velociraptor was a meat-eater (carnivore). ... Diplodocus was a plant-eater (herbivore), this dinosaur probably spent most of his life eating plants.

How much did a Diplodocus eat?

For example, a 10 tonne Diplodocus with an assumed energy requirement of 280 kJ of metabolisable energy per kilogram of body weight per day, feeding exclusively on ferns would need to eat 33.2 kg per day. If it dined exclusively on horsetails it would need to eat 23.8 kilograms per day.

What were Diplodocus predators?

Diplodocus was for many years the longest known dinosaur, and its size alone may have deterred predation from such fierce predators as Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus, whose remains are found in the same region.

Did Diplodocus have teeth?

The teeth of Diplodocus and some other sauropods are a puzzle. Whereas most plant-eating animals have large, grinding molars, Diplodocus skulls have peg-like teeth that are worn in an unusual way. At the front of the mouth, the peg teeth stick out from both the lower and upper jaws.

Did T Rex eat Diplodocus?

The same is true for Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, Barosaurus, Brachiosaurus and Camarasaurus—all of these 150-million-year-old icons flourished during a time when tyrannosaurs were tiny, fuzzy creatures that could have tackled only much smaller fare. ...

Did Diplodocus lay eggs?

The documentary Walking with Dinosaurs portrayed a mother Diplodocus using an ovipositor to lay eggs, but it was pure speculation on the part of the documentary author. For Diplodocus and other sauropods, the size of clutches and individual eggs were surprisingly small for such large animals.

Is a Diplodocus a vegetarian?

Diplodocus was a huge dinosaur from the same time as the Allosaurus. It lived during the Upper Jurassic period, about 145 to 155 million years ago. It was a vegetarian, eating mostly leaves with its peg-like teeth.

What did titanosaurus eat?

Paleobiology. As a group, titanosaurs were high browsers, eating leaves and branches from tall trees.

Why did Diplodocus eat all day long?

Huge dinosaurs like Diplodocus couldn't chew, so how did they eat? At about 80 feet long, an adult Diplodocus would have required a huge amount of food to fuel its bulk. ... The dinosaur was perfectly capable of opening and closing its jaws vertically on plants without any major stress.

What are Diplodocus good for?

The Diplodocus can be used to transport multiple passengers as well as carry a good amount of weight on it due to its large size with the addition of being able to get around fast due to its high base speed.

Was Diplodocus a carnivore or herbivore?

One of the best-known sauropods (long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs), this genus of dinosaur lived during the late Jurassic Period, about 155.7 million to 150.8 million years ago, and primarily roamed western North America.

What dinosaurs had 500 teeth?

This bizarre, long-necked dinosaur is characterized by its unusually broad, straight-edged muzzle tipped with more than 500 replaceable teeth. The original fossil skull of Nigersaurus is one of the first dinosaur skulls to be digitally reconstructed from CT scans.

Why doesn't the mother Diplodocus lay her eggs inside the forest?

Summary: Scientists have discovered that both individual egg size and clutch size for the sauropods -- which includes Diplodocus -- were a lot smaller than might be expected for such enormous creatures. ...

Which body part of the Diplodocus is still a mystery?

Scientists assumptions about these dinosaurs and their aquatic lifestyles were reinforced in 1884 with the discovery of an almost intact skull of a Diplodocus. This showed a large hole at the top of the head, which scientists interpreted as the entire nasal cavity.

How big was a Diplodocus egg?

Infant Diplodocus hatched out of eggs roughly the size of a large grapefruit, and if they were lucky, the dinosaurs grew to be more than 80 feet long as adults. And the little sauropods were not just small copies of adults.