Dicraeosaurus
Extinct genus of dinosaurs from late Jurassic in Lindi Region, Tanzania. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dicraeosaurus | |
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Dicraeosaurus skeleton | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Superfamily: | †Diplodocoidea |
Family: | †Dicraeosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Dicraeosaurinae Janensch, 1929 |
Genus: | †Dicraeosaurus |
Type species | |
†Dicraeosaurus hansemanni | |
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Dicraeosaurus (Gr. δικραιος, dikraios "bifurcated, double-headed" + Gr. σαυρος, sauros "lizard") is a genus of diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania during the late Jurassic period. The genus was named for the neural spines on the back of its neck. The first fossil was described by paleontologist Werner Janensch in 1914.