Re: earliest herbivore

[Philidor11@aol.com]

>From 'The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs' (Norman; 1985):
Anchisaurids
The vast majority of all prosauropods known to date fall into this family
which derives its name from Anchisaurus ('close reptile'), a small (8.2
ft...long) lightly built prosauropod from early Jurassic rocks of the
Connecticut Valley of eastern North America.  The earliest discovery of
Anchisaurus was made in 1818.

There's a very elaborate story of how the various species got their names,
including the renaming of anchisaurus major as ammosaurus major.
 
At any rate, I was referring to an assertion I remember from a different book
that the Connecticut anchisaurs were the first dinosaurs to follow a more or
less exclusively vegetarian diet.