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Diplodocus, depicted with spines limited to the mid-line of the back. Diplodocids were generally large animals, even by sauropod standards. Thanks to their long necks and tails, diplodocids were among the longest sauropods, with some species such as Supersaurus vivianae and Diplodocus hallorum estimated to have reached lengths of 30 meters (100 ft) or more. [3]
Hundreds of assorted postcranial elements were found in the Monument that have been referred to Diplodocus, but few have been properly described. [6] A nearly complete skull of a juvenile Diplodocus was collected by Douglass in 1921, and it is the first known from a Diplodocus .
Clytie (/ ˈ k l aɪ t i iː /; Ancient Greek: Κλυτίη, romanized: Klutíē) or Clytia (/ ˈ k l aɪ t i ə /; Ancient Greek: Κλυτία, romanized: Klutía, lit. 'renowned') is a water nymph, daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys in Greek mythology. She is thus one of the 3,000 Oceanid nymphs, and sister to the 3,000 river-gods.
Birds in ancient Rome and Greece were eaten as food. Flamingo tongues were highly valuable in ancient Rome. Emperors would collect them and serve them at feasts. [59] The Hēliou Zōön, or "creature of the sun" was an ancient Greek term for a species of bird, which was likely the Greater Flamingo or the Phoenix. [60]
An alternative method, using limb length and body mass, found Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus grew 520 kg (1,150 lb) per year, and reached their full mass before it was about 70 years old. [93] These estimates have been called unreliable because the calculation methods are not sound; old growth lines would have been obliterated by bone remodeling ...
Ardetosaurus can be more precisely classified within the diplodocid subfamily Diplodocinae, which includes sauropods more similar to Diplodocus than Apatosaurus. Diplodocines exhibit a vast range of body sizes, including some of the longest known dinosaurs such as Supersaurus, at 35–40 metres (115–131 ft).
The weight of Amphicoelias fragillimus was estimated at 122.4 metric tons with lengths of up to nearly 60 meters [21] but 2015 research argued that these estimates were based on a diplodocid rather than the more modern rebbachisaurid, suggesting a much shorter length of 35–40 meters with mass between 80–120 tons. [22]
Amphicoelias (/ ˌ æ m f ɪ ˈ s iː l i ə s /, meaning "biconcave", from the Greek ἀμφί, amphi: "on both sides", and κοῖλος, koilos: "hollow, concave") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived approximately 150 million years ago during the Tithonian (Late Jurassic Period) of what is now Colorado, United States.