Amphicoelias
"double cavities"
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CLASSIFICATION

Amphicoelias Cope, 1877 [nomen dubium?]
    TYPE SPECIES:
  • A. altus Cope, 1877 [nomen dubium?] "tall double cavities"
    OTHER SPECIES:
  • A. fragillimus Cope, 1878 [nomen dubium] "very fragile double cavities"

    MISASSIGNED SPECIES:
  • A. latus Cope, 1877 "broad double cavities" == Camarasaurus supremus
Animalia
Vertebrata
Tetrapoda
Sauropsida
Archosauromorpha
Ornithodira
Dinosauria
Sauropodomorpha
Sauropoda
Diplodocimorpha

see also: Genus Index, Classification


MEASUREMENTS

LENGTH: ?20 m
  • A. fragillimus: ?45 m
MASS:
  • A. fragillimus: ?100 tonnes to ?150 tonnes

see also: World Records


TIME

Kimmeridgian to Tithonian

see also: Ages of the Mesozoic


PLACE

Colorado

see also: Paleo-Maps


REMAINS

see also: Anatomy


ESSAY

Amphicoelias fragillimus was named for an enormous, crumbling vertebra which has since been lost (if it ever existed). Only a drawing remains, which claims that the vertebra was 2.4 m tall. It may have represented an enormous individual of A. altus


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