What are fruit eating dinosaurs called?

Dubbed Pegomastax africanus, or “thick jaw from Africa,” the newly classified species lived about 200 million years ago near the dawn of the dinosaur era. It is part of the Heterodontosaurus family.

What vegetables did dinosaurs eat?

Plant eaters probably lived on a variety of leaves, twigs and seeds which would have included conifers, geiko plants, redwoods, yews, pines, cypress and cycades. They may have also eaten a variety of angiosperms and other flowering plants.

What was the T Rex diet?

Triceratops
EdmontosaurusCorythosaurusTyrannosaurus
Tyrannosaurus/Eats

What did most dinosaurs eat?

plants
Some dinosaurs ate lizards, turtles, eggs, or early mammals. Some hunted other dinosaurs or scavenged dead animals. Most, however, ate plants (but not grass, which hadn’t evolved yet).

How do you tell if a dinosaur is a carnivore or herbivore?

Dinosaurs with sharp, pointed teeth that walked on two legs were carnivores (meat-eaters); dinosaurs with flatter, grinding teeth that walked on four legs (all or part of the time) were plant-eaters.

How did dinosaurs eat enough food?

They just pulled up their food and gulped it down. The mechanical break-up may have been carried out by a ‘gastric mill’. Similar to today’s birds, dinosaurs may have swallowed stones with which they ground the food to a paste with their muscular stomach.

Why did dinosaurs eat fruits?

The reason plants make fruits is to entice animals to eat them, in order to disperse the seeds. Dinosaurs were the dominant land animals at that time, filling ecological niches in size ranges all the way from the familiar mega-giant beasts, all the way down to tiny dinosaurs the size of a chicken.

Do dinosaurs eat humans?

Secondly, the other dinosaurs, carnivores and omnivores, did not eat humans. We simply didn’t exist at the same time. Whilst in films some like Jurassic park, humans are eaten, this is because, like foxes or wolves, the dinosaurs needed meat to eat. So there, If a dinosaur is looking at you funny, it may still eat you.

Did these fruits co-evolve to entice dinosaurs to spread seeds?

But since dinosaurs were so overwhelmingly dominant, it’s perhaps even more likely that these fruits co-evolved to entice dinosaurs themselves as their main seed dispersal agent. One of our native Florida pawpaws, Asimina parviflora.

What did the Tyrannosaurus rex eat?

Salad. And some meat. The Tyrannosaurus rex was a nightmarish lizard, a menacing meat-eater that chomped down on other dinosaurs like the Triceratops and Edmontosaurus with a bone-crushing bite. They likely even cannibalized members of their own species.