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SOM#128, Don Everhart, The Fossil Collection, Diplodocus, 1994
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From the collection of John Birks
Number issued: 200 Bronze
DIPLODOCUS
dih - PLOD - o - kus
Late Jurassic, North America
Diplodocus was a huge sauropod. At 85 feet long, it was the longest dinosaur unearthed to date. It was characterized by an extremely long neck and a whiplash tail, with a tiny head mounted on the end of the slender neck. These animals wee herding and browsing creatures, as indicated by fossil footprints found in mud. We can surmise by the long necks of these creatures that they were to forage higher up in the trees where other dinosaurs could not.
Despite its huge size and length, Diplodocus only weighed about 10 tons; about 1/10 of its sauropod relative, Brachiosaurus. This is because the neck and tail vertebrae had been reduced to lightweight bony struts, complete with latticework to save weight, yet be able to withstand maximum stress. The diplodocid family lived worldwide during the late Jurassic Period and into the Cretaceous Period but then declined with only a few species left in eastern Asia.
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![SOM#128, Don Everhart, The Fossil Collection, Diplodocus, 1994
[b]From the collection of John Birks[/b]
[i]Number issued: 200 Bronze[/i]
[b]DIPLODOCUS
dih - PLOD - o - kus
Late Jurassic, North America[/b]
Diplodocus was a huge sauropod. At 85 feet long, it was the longest dinosaur unearthed to date. It was characterized by an extremely long neck and a whiplash tail, with a tiny head mounted on the end of the slender neck. These animals wee herding and browsing creatures, as indicated by fossil footprints found in mud. We can surmise by the long necks of these creatures that they were to forage higher up in the trees where other dinosaurs could not.
Despite its huge size and length, Diplodocus only weighed about 10 tons; about 1/10 of its sauropod relative, Brachiosaurus. This is because the neck and tail vertebrae had been reduced to lightweight bony struts, complete with latticework to save weight, yet be able to withstand maximum stress. The diplodocid family lived worldwide during the late Jurassic Period and into the Cretaceous Period but then declined with only a few species left in eastern Asia.
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[b]From the collection of John Birks[/b]
[i]Number issued: 200 Bronze[/i]
[b]DIPLODOCUS
dih - PLOD - o - kus
Late Jurassic, North America[/b]
Diplodocus was a huge sauropod. At 85 feet long, it was the longest dinosaur unearthed to date. It was characterized by an extremely long neck and a whiplash tail, with a tiny head mounted on the end of the slender neck. These animals wee herding and browsing creatures, as indicated by fossil footprints found in mud. We can surmise by the long necks of these creatures that they were to forage higher up in the trees where other dinosaurs could not.
Despite its huge size and length, Diplodocus only weighed about 10 tons; about 1/10 of its sauropod relative, Brachiosaurus. This is because the neck and tail vertebrae had been reduced to lightweight bony struts, complete with latticework to save weight, yet be able to withstand maximum stress. The diplodocid family lived worldwide during the late Jurassic Period and into the Cretaceous Period but then declined with only a few species left in eastern Asia.
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