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 
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| 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.
