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Brachiosaurus is estimated to have been between 18 and 22 meters (59 and 72 ft) long; body mass estimates of the subadult holotype specimen range from 28.3 to 46.9 metric tons (31.2 to 51.7 short tons). It had a disproportionately long neck, small skull, and large overall size, all of which are typical for sauropods.
Size is an important aspect of dinosaur ... (previously classified as a species of Brachiosaurus). ... whip-like tails, such as the 29–30 m (95–98 ft ...
Brachiosaurus humerus bone. In 1903, Elmer Samuel Riggs described and named Brachiosaurus. In 1904, he created a new sauropod family, the Brachiosauridae. [9] [1] He published a complete description of the phenotype after examining the humerus, femur, coracoid, and sacrum of the Brachiosaurus holotype that had been prepared at the Field ...
Brachiosaurus brancai (now Giraffititan) was probably a high browser, so it would have been more muscled along the neck than other sauropods like Diplodocus and Dicraeosaurus interpreted as low browsers. The tail and limb length of B. brancai would also need to be greater, to balance out the inclined neck. [6]
Paleontologists have conducted a study scrutinizing bite marks left by meat-eating dinosaurs on the bones of sauropods - the familiar plant-eating dinosaurs with long necks, long tails and four ...
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Traditionally, the distinctive high-crested skull was seen as a characteristic of the genus Brachiosaurus, to which Giraffatitan brancai was originally referred; however, it is possible that Brachiosaurus altithorax did not show this feature, since within the traditional Brachiosaurus material it is known only from Tanzanian specimens now ...
As only the tail club of specimen AMNH 5214 is known, the range of variation between individuals is unknown. The tail club of AMNH 5214 is 60 cm (23 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, 49 cm (19 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) wide, and 19 cm (7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) tall. The club of the largest specimen may have been 57 cm (22 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) wide.