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Supersaurus (meaning "super lizard") is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. The type species, S. vivianae, was first discovered by Vivian Jones of Delta, Colorado, in the middle Morrison Formation of Colorado in 1972.
Supersaurus was likely the world's longest dinosaur — around 137 feet, on average, from nose to tail. Scientists crowned the world's longest dinosaur — a Supersaurus longer than 3 school buses ...
The holotype, IVPP V5542 was found on a cliff southwest of Laiyang, Shandong Province, near Hongtuyan train station. [3] The remains were named and described by Dong Zhiming in 1978 as belonging to the new genus and species Micropachycephalosaurus hongtuyanensis, [3] which he incorrectly figured was discovered in the Wangshi Formation.
The largest freshwater turtle of all time was the Miocene podocnemid Stupendemys, with an estimated parasagittal carapace length of 2.86 m (9 ft 5 in) and weight of up to 1,145 kg (2,524 lb). [296] Carbonemys cofrinii from the same family had a shell that measured about 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in), [ 297 ] [ 298 ] [ 299 ] complete shell was estimated at ...
Dinosaur fans who responded to the museum's request for input overwhelmingly chose to call the Natural History Museum's new 70-foot-long sauropod 'Gnatalie.'
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Diplodocoidea is a superfamily of sauropod dinosaurs, which included some of the longest animals of all time, including slender giants like Supersaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, and Amphicoelias. Most had very long necks and long, whip-like tails; however, one family (the dicraeosaurids ) are the only known sauropods to have re-evolved a short ...
The world's largest dinosaur has arrived on UK soil for the first time. A skeleton cast of the most complete dinosaur ever discovered, the titanosaur (Patagotitan mayorum), was flown from Buenos ...