Amphicoelias
genus of reptiles (fossil)
Amphicoelias is an extinct genus of sauropod dinosaur.
Amphicoelias | |
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Holotype vertebrae of A. altus, AMNH 5764 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Superfamily: | †Diplodocoidea |
Family: | †Diplodocidae |
Genus: | †Amphicoelias Cope, 1878 |
Species: | †A. altus
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Binomial name | |
Amphicoelias altus Cope, 1878
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The fossil was found in the Morrison Formation.[1] It lived about 150 million years ago during the Upper Jurassic of what is now Colorado.
A herbivore, Amphicoelias was moderately sized at about 25 m (82 ft) long–roughly the same length as Diplodocus, to which it was related.
References
change- ↑ Foster J. 2007. Appendix in Jurassic West: the dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and their world. Indiana University Press. pp. 327–329.