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family · 2 represented species

Dicraeosauridae

Dicraeosauridae is a family of relatively small, short-necked diplodocoid sauropods with paired, often elongated neural spines.

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Dicraeosauridae

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Representative silhouette for Dicraeosauridae
2Direct child groups
2Countries represented
155–123 MaDataset range

Branch structure

Direct branches in this dataset

genus

Amargasaurus

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Dicraeosaurus

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Representative taxa

Dinosaurs in this branch

Pair of Amargasaurus cazaui in a display reconstruction by Fred WierumArt by Fred Wierum · CC BY-SA 4.0

Cretaceous

Amargasaurus cazaui

A small, short-necked Patagonian sauropod whose paired cervical neural spines formed one of the most extraordinary silhouettes in dinosaur evolution.

herbivore~9 m
Side-view life reconstruction of Dicraeosaurus hansemanniArt by Dmitry Bogdanov · CC BY-SA 3.0

Jurassic

Dicraeosaurus hansemanni

A compact, unusually short-necked diplodocoid from Tanzania with tall forked vertebral spines and one of the best skeletons known for its family.

herbivore~13 m

Distribution

Geographic record

Argentina · Tanzania

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

Sources

Further reading

Introduction to the DinosauriaDinosaur Paleobiology