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The first quarry with Giraffatitan material was "Site D", located about one kilometre northeast of the Tendaguru Hill and opened on 21 June 1909. It contained a relatively complete skeleton of a medium-sized individual, lacking the hands, the neck, the back vertebrae and the skull. It included an articulated series of twenty-nine tail vertebrae.
At 40 centimetres (16 in) long, the skull of Lishulong is larger than any other sauropodomorph from the Lufeng Formation. The cervical vertebrae are very large and elongated; the centrum of the first preserved cervical vertebra (the axis) is 16.3 centimetres (6.4 in) long, and the centrum of the last preserved cervical vertebra (the tenth consecutive bone in the series) is 19.9 centimetres (7. ...
A partial skull with seven articulated vertebrae [124] Skeletal diagram of all known remains including the holotype: Bagualosaurus agudoensis: UFRGS-PV-1099-T [125] Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul: Carnian: Candelária Formation, Rio Grande do Sul [125] Partial skull and jaw, several vertebrae, and mostly complete hind limbs with hips ...
This is a list of non-avian dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered in Africa.Africa has a rich fossil record. It is rich in Triassic and Early Jurassic dinosaurs. . African dinosaurs from these time periods include Megapnosaurus, Dracovenator, Melanorosaurus, Massospondylus, Euskelosaurus, Heterodontosaurus, Abrictosaurus, and Lesoth
The finds consisted of a partial skeleton lacking the skull and individual vertebrae uncovered in several locations. De Lapparent did not assign a holotype. In 2003 Mateus chose the skeleton as the lectotype. Its bones have the inventory numbers MIGM 4798, 4801–10, 4938, 4944, 4950, 4952, 4958, 4964–6, 4981–2, 4985, 8807, and 8793-5.
"[Five] partial skeletons, more than [three] skulls, [and] isolated limb elements" B. brancai was distinct enough from the non-Tendaguru Brachiosaurus type species B. altithorax that it was moved to its own genus, Giraffatitan. [25] [42] [46] B. fraasi: Remains attributed to B. fraasi were later referred to B. brancai, and thus now Giraffatitan ...
Skull (copy) Majungasaurus crenatissimus: FMNH PR2100 Field Museum of Natural History: Chicago: Illinois: USA: Skeleton, mounted Miasaura peeblesorum: FMNH PR2538 Field Museum of Natural History: Chicago: Illinois: USA: Skull Mojoceratops: AMNH 5401 American Museum of Natural History: New York: New York: USA: previously referred to Chasmosaurus ...
Their skull roofs showed wide supratemporal fenestrae, openings for the muscles. [4] They had neural arches placed more on front of the vertebrae, shoulder blades that were expanded at the top end, irregularly shaped coracoids in the shoulder girdle, and triangular projections on the underside of the front branch of their quadratojugal bones at ...