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Brachiosaurus (/ ˌ b r æ k i ə ˈ s ɔː r ə s /) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic, about 154 to 150 million years ago. [1] It was first described by American paleontologist Elmer S. Riggs in 1903 from fossils found in the Colorado River valley in western Colorado, United States.
Brachiosaurus humerus bone. In 1903, Elmer Samuel Riggs described and named Brachiosaurus. In 1904, he created a new sauropod family, the Brachiosauridae. [9] [1] He published a complete description of the phenotype after examining the humerus, femur, coracoid, and sacrum of the Brachiosaurus holotype that had been prepared at the Field ...
Sonorasaurus. Sonorasaurus is a genus of brachiosaurid dinosaur from the Early to Late Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian stages, around 112 to 93 million years ago). It was a herbivorous sauropod whose fossils have been found in southern Arizona in the United States. Its name, which means "Sonora lizard", comes from the Sonora River that flows ...
Giraffatitan (name meaning "titanic giraffe ") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic Period (Kimmeridgian – Tithonian stages) in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania. Only one species is known, G. brancai, named in honor of German paleontologist Wilhelm von Branca, who was a driving force behind the expedition that ...
Brachiosuchus is known from an almost complete skull; missing the jugal, squamosal, quadrate and quadratojugal bones; an incomplete mandible missing the posterior portion, multiple cervical vertebrae, dorsal ribs, a complete humerus as well as incomplete ulna and radius, the left pubis, ischium and ilium, a right femur and multiple complete and fragmentary osteoderms. [1]
The latest dinosaur being mounted at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles is not only a member of a new species — it's also the only one found on the planet whose bones are green, according ...
Alamosaurus was a gigantic quadrupedal herbivore with the long neck, the long tail, the relatively long limbs and the body partly covered with bony armor. [3][4] It would have measured around 26 metres (85 ft) long, 5 metres (16 ft) tall at the shoulder and weighed up to 30–35 tonnes (33–39 short tons) based on known adult specimens ...
Gallimimus is the largest known ornithomimid; adults were about 6 metres (20 ft) long, 1.9 metres (6 ft 3 in) tall at the hip and weighed about 400–490 kilograms (880–1,080 lb). As evidenced by its relative Ornithomimus, it would have had feathers. The head was small and light with large eyes that faced to the sides.