Genre

Valide Éteint

Brachiosaurus

Riggs 1903

Brachiosaurus est un genre fossile de dinosaures appartenant au groupe des sauropodes et à la famille des brachiosauridés.

Plage temporelle

Trias

Jurassique

Crétacé

Paléogène

Néogène

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

Occurrences PBDB

Groupe

Dinosaures

Herbivore Vivant au sol, grégaire Terrestre

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The mounted skeleton of Brachiosaurus altithorax outside the Field Museum in Chicago, based on the holotype FMNH P25107, with missing parts filled in from the mounted Giraffatitan brancai MB.R.2181 at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. © Matt Wedel · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Clade non classé

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Saurischia Clade non classé

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Sauropodomorpha Clade non classé

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Massopoda Clade non classé

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Sauropodiformes Clade non classé

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Sauropoda Clade non classé

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Gravisauria Clade non classé

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Eusauropoda Clade non classé

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Neosauropoda Clade non classé

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Macronaria Clade non classé

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Titanosauriformes Clade non classé

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Brachiosauridae Famille

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Brachiosaurus Genre

Sites de découverte 20 sites géolocalisés

Répartition

Principaux pays

🇺🇸 États-Unis

🇹🇿 Tanzanie

🇩🇪 Allemagne

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

Formations géologiques

Morrison

Tendaguru

Süntel

Kadzi

Distribution temporelle

Tithonien (149.2–143.1 Ma)

Kimméridgien (154.8–149.2 Ma)

Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)

Espèces (1)

Brachiosaurus altithorax 155 Ma

Bibliographie

Description originale

E. S. Riggs. 1903. Brachiosaurus altithorax, the largest known dinosaur. American Journal of Science, series 4 15:299-306 DOI ↗

Bibliographie (18)

C. Boisvert, G. T. Bivens, and B. Curtice, D. R. Wilhite, M. J. Wedel. 2025. Census of currently known specimens of the Late Jurassic sauropod Haplocanthosaurus from the Morrison Formation, USA. Geology of the Intermountain West 12(16867):1–23 DOI ↗

B. Curtice, M. Wedel, and D. R. Wilhite, C. Boisvert. 2023. New material of Haplocanthosaurus (Hatcher 1903) from the Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry and a comment on sauropod diversity. 14th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota. The Anatomical Record 306 (S1)

J. L. Carballido, J. S. Marpmann, and D. Schwarz-Wings, B. Pabst. 2012. New information on a juvenile sauropod specimen from the Morrison Formation and the reassessment of its systematic position. Palaeontology 55(3):567-582 DOI ↗

R. T. Tucker. 2011. Taphonomy of Sheridan College Quarry 1, Buffalo, Wyoming: implications for reconstructing historic dinosaur localities including Utterback's 1902–1910 Morrison dinosaur expeditions. Geobios 44(5):527-541 DOI ↗

H. Galiano and R. Albersdörfer. 2010. A New Basal Diplodocoid Species, Amphicoelias brontodiplodocus from the Morrison Formation, Big Horn Basin, Wyoming, with Taxonomic Reevaluation of Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Barosaurus and Other Genera. Dinosauria International (Ten Sleep, WY) Report for September 2010

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

K. Remes. 2007. A second Gondwanan diplodocid dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Tendaguru Beds of Tanzania, East Africa. Palaeontology 50(3):653-667 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. J. Wedel, M. F. Bonnan, and R. K. Sanders. 2002. Two previously unreported sauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Oklahoma. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3 (suppl.)):118A

R. Windolf. 2000. Dinosaur sites in the Upper Jurassic of northern Germany. 5th European Workshop on Vertebrate Palaeontology. Program. Abstracts. Excursion Guides

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

W. L. Chenoweth. 1987. The Riggs Hill and Dinosaur Hill sites, Mesa County, Colorado. Paleontology and Geology of the Dinosaur Triangle: Guidebook for 1987 Field Trip

J. A. Jensen. 1987. New brachiosaur material from the Late Jurassic of Utah and Colorado. Great Britain Naturalist 47(4):592-608

M. A. Raath and J. S. McIntosh. 1987. Sauropod dinosaurs from the central Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe, and the age of the Kadzi Formation. South African Journal of Geology 90(2):107-119

F. W. H. Migeod. 1927. The dinosaurs of Tendaguru. Journal of the Royal African Society 26(104):323-340 DOI ↗

E. S. Riggs. 1903. Brachiosaurus altithorax, the largest known dinosaur. American Journal of Science, series 4 15:299-306 DOI ↗