A Guide to the Dinosaurs of Colorado
On Dinosaur Classification
On Scientific Names
The Basics of Taxonomy
An Introduction to Cladistcs
Taxonomy of the Dinosaurs of Colorado
Cladogram of the Dinosaurs of Colorado
About the Dinosaurs of Colorado
Geological
Time Chart
    

Genus Diplodocus

Taxonomy: Recognized Species
Class Dinosauria
  Subclass Sauropodomorpha
    Order Sauropoda
      Suborder Diplodocimorpha
        Family Diplodocidae
D. longus Marsh, 1878
  Colorado, Utah.
D. lacustris Marsh, 1884
  Colorado.
D. carnegii Hatcher, 1901
  Wyoming, Utah.
D. hayi Holland, 1924
  Wyoming.
Species in Colorado: Diplodocus longus
Diplodocus lacustris
Size: Where found:
85 feet
26 meters		 Morrison Formation of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming
Period: Age:
Late Jurassic Kimmeridgian - Tithonian
  144 to 156 Ma.
Material Found
D. longus
Two skulls, tail vertebrae.
D. lacustris
Jaw with teeth.
D. carnegii
Five skeletons without skulls or forefeet, two skulls, many postcranial pieces.
D. hayi
Partial skeleton with braincase.

Information compiled by Donald L. Blanchard

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