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Brachiosaurus
Ate: PlantsLong-necksLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
Brachiosaurus was one of the long-necks. Its fossils come from rocks about 158 to 143 million years old.1
Lived
158 to 143 million years ago1
Late Jurassic to Early CretaceousMost fossils found in
USA, Tanzania1
plus records from 2 more countriesFood
Plants1
When did it live?
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid
For dino experts
- Scientific name
- Brachiosaurus
- Named by
- Riggs 19031
- Group
- Long-necks
- Family / clade
- Brachiosauridae1
- Classification
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Macronaria1
- Age of the rocks
- 158 to 143 million years ()1
- Rock formations
- Morrison, Tendaguru, Kadzi1
- Countries
- USA, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Germany1
- Fossil records
- 20 in the Paleobiology Database1
Where the facts come from
- Brachiosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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