Genre
Valide Éteint

Diplodocus

Marsh 1878

Diplodocus est un genre fossile de très grands dinosaures herbivores sauropodes de la famille des diplodocidés ayant vécu au Jurassique supérieur, il y a environ entre 154 et 152 Ma, en Amérique du Nord où il a été découvert dans les parties moyenne et supérieure de la formation de Morrison dans les États de l'ouest des États-Unis.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
66
Groupe
Dinosaures
Herbivore Vivant au sol, grégaire Terrestre
Diplodocus
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Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
Saurischia Clade non classé
Sauropodomorpha Clade non classé
Massopoda Clade non classé
Sauropodiformes Clade non classé
Sauropoda Clade non classé
Gravisauria Clade non classé
Eusauropoda Clade non classé
Neosauropoda Clade non classé
Diplodocoidea Clade non classé
Diplodocimorpha Clade non classé
Flagellicaudata Clade non classé
Diplodocidae Clade non classé
Diplodocinae Clade non classé
Diplodocus Genre
Sites de découverte 66 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇺🇸 États-Unis
66
Formations géologiques
Distribution temporelle
Tithonien (149.2–143.1 Ma)
55
Kimméridgien (154.8–149.2 Ma)
10
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Espèces (3)
Diplodocus carnegii 155 Ma
Diplodocus hallorum 155 Ma
Diplodocus longus 155 Ma
Synonymes (1)
Seismosaurus subjective synonym of Diplodocus
Bibliographie
Description originale
O. C. Marsh. 1878. Principal characters of American Jurassic dinosaurs. Part I. American Journal of Science and Arts 16:411-416 DOI ↗
Bibliographie (29)
D. R. Richmond, T. C. Hunt, and R. L. Cifelli. 2020. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Morrison Formation in the western panhandle of Oklahoma with reference to the historical Stovall dinosaur quarries. Journal of Geology 128:477-515 DOI ↗
E. Tschopp, O. Mateus, and R. B. J. Benson. 2015. A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda). PeerJ 3:e857 DOI ↗
M. Hanson and P. J. Makovicky. 2013. A new specimen of Torvoaurus tanneri originally collected by Elmer Riggs. Historical Biology 26(6):775-784 DOI ↗
G. W. Storrs, S. E. Oser, and M. Aull. 2013. Further analysis of a Late Jurassic dinosaur bone-bed from the Morrison Formation of Montana, USA, with a computed three-dimensional reconstruction. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103:1-16 DOI ↗
J. Mathews, S. Williams, and M. Bonnan, M. Henderson. 2009. The Hanksville-Burpee Quarry: new insights into a sauropod dominated bonebed in the Morrison Formation of eastern Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3, suppl.):144A
D. S. Jennings and S. T. Hasiotis. 2006. Taphonomic analysis of a dinosaur feeding site using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Morrison Formation, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA. Palaios 21:480-492 DOI ↗
J. R. Foster. 2005. New juvenile sauropod material from western Colorado, and the record of juvenile sauropods from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington
J. R. Foster. 2003. Paleoecological analysis of the vertebrate fauna of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Rocky Mountain region, U.S.A. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 23:1-95
M. V. Connely. 2002. Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Morrison Formation, Como Bluff, Wyoming
B. K. Wilborn. 2001. Two New Dinosaur Bonebeds from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, Bighorn Basin, WY: An Analysis of the Paleontology and Stratigraphy.
J. Ayer. 1999. The Howe Ranch Dinosaurs: 10 Years of Dinosaur Digging in Wyoming. Sauriermuseum, Aathal, Switzerland
C. A. Miles and D. W. Hamblin. 1999. Historical update: paleontological excavation in the Como Region. In J. H. Ostrom & J. S. McIntosh, Marsh's Dinosaurs. Yale University Press, New Haven
J. H. Ostrom and J. S. McIntosh. 1999. Marsh's Dinosaurs: The Collections from Como Bluff. Yale University Press, New Haven
C. E. Turner and F. Peterson. 1999. Biostratigraphy of dinosaurs in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Western Interior, U.S.A. Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:77-114
K. Carpenter. 1998. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Morrison Formation near Cañon City, Colorado. Modern Geology 23:407-426
E. Evanoff and K. Carpenter. 1998. History, sedimentology, and taphonomy of Felch Quarry 1 and associated sandbodies, Morrison Formation, Garden Park, Colorado. Modern Geology 23:145-169
C. A. Bjoraker-Naus. 1997. The Warm Springs Ranch Dinosaur Locality, Thermopolis, Wyoming. Preliminary flora and fauna analysis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3):32A
J. S. McIntosh, C. A. Miles, and K. C. Cloward, J. R. Parker. 1996. A new nearly complete skeleton of Camarasaurus. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 1:1-87
A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1993. Jurassic vertebrates of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 2:71-75
B. Britt. 1991. Theropods of Dry Mesa Quarry (Morrison Formation, Late Jurassic), Colorado, with emphasis on the osteology of Torvosaurus tanneri. BYU Geology Studies 37:1-72
D. D. Gillette. 1991. Seismosaurus halli, gen. et sp. nov., a new sauropod dinosaur from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous) of New Mexico, USA. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(4):417-433 DOI ↗
E. Moore. 1985. Collecting in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Fossils Quarterly 4(2):16-24
J. S. McIntosh. 1981. Annotated catalogue of the dinosaurs (Reptilia, Archosauria) in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 18:1-67 DOI ↗
C. W. Gilmore. 1932. On a newly mounted skeleton of Diplodocus in the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 81(18):1-21 DOI ↗
H. F. Osborn. 1904. Manus, sacrum, and caudals of Sauropoda. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 20(14):181-190
J. B. Hatcher. 1901. Some new and little known fossil vertebrates. Annals of Carnegie Museum 1(1):128-144 DOI ↗
J. B. Hatcher. 1901. Diplodocus Marsh; its osteology, taxonomy, and probate habits, with a restoration of the skeleton. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 1:1-63 DOI ↗
S. W. Williston. 1901. The dinosaurian genus Creosaurus, Marsh. American Journal of Science, series 4 11(11):111-114 DOI ↗
O. C. Marsh. 1878. Principal characters of American Jurassic dinosaurs. Part I. American Journal of Science and Arts 16:411-416 DOI ↗