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family · 1 represented species

Brachiosauridae

Brachiosauridae is included in this curated classification as a family within Macronaria. Its displayed membership follows the simplified relationships used by this dataset.

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Brachiosauridae

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Representative silhouette for Brachiosauridae
1Direct child groups
1Countries represented
154–150 MaDataset range

Branch structure

Direct branches in this dataset

genus

Brachiosaurus

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Representative taxa

Dinosaurs in this branch

Life reconstruction of Brachiosaurus altithorax walking through a Late Jurassic landscapeArt by Levi Bernardo · CC BY-SA 3.0

Jurassic

Brachiosaurus altithorax

A rare, high-shouldered Morrison Formation sauropod named from a partial Colorado skeleton with a huge humerus, deep trunk vertebrae and forelimbs longer than its hind limbs.

herbivore~21 m

Distribution

Geographic record

United States

Country-level summary of represented seed records, not a complete range map.

Sources

Further reading

Introduction to the DinosauriaDinosaur Paleobiology