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Brachiosaurus
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Brachiosaurus was a giant sauropod dinosaur that roamed North America during the Late Jurassic period, roughly 155 to 145 million years ago, and is notable as one of the earliest dinosaurs formally described by paleontologists when American scientist Elmer S. Riggs first identified it in 1903 from Colorado fossils. The dinosaur's name refers to its distinctively long arms relative to its body size, and it ranks among the largest known land animals from the fossil record.
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- Parent taxon
- Brachiosauridae
- Mass
- 58
- Image
- 202009 Brachiosaurus altithorax.svg
- Length
- 30.0
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- location of discovery
- Algeria
- taxon name
- Brachiosaurus
- Commons category
- Brachiosaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons gallery
- Brachiosaurus
- start time
- 154000000-
- end time
- 150000000-
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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- WikiProject United States
- time period
- Late Jurassic
- main food source
- herbivore
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Brachiosaurus („Armechse“) ist eine Gattung sauropoder Dinosaurier aus dem Oberjura von Nordamerika. Brachiosaurus zählt zu den größten Landtieren der Erdgeschichte. Mit weiteren Gattungen bildet er aufgrund gemeinsamer anatomischer Merkmale wie den langen Vorderbeinen und den hoch liegenden Nasenöffnungen das Taxon Brachiosauridae.
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