Types of Dinosaurs

Names of Dinosaurs & Dinosaur Information
Dinosaur Name:

Vulcanodon

- Pronunciation: vul-CAN-uh-don
- Translation: Fire Tooth, or Volcano Tooth
- Order: Saurischia
- Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
- Infraorder: Sauropoda
- Family: Vulcanodontidae
- Height: 8 feet (2.4 meters)
- Weight: Period
- Length: 20 feet (6.1 meters)
- Description: Herbivore, Quadrupedal
- Notes: Discovered in Zimbabwe, Vulcanodon is one of themost primitive sauropods known. Its bones had a mixture of prosauropod and sauropod features.