metres (138 ft). Diplodocids were generally large animals, even by sauropod standards. Thanks to their long necks and tails, diplodocids were among the...

very long ribs compared to most other diplodocids, giving it an unusually deep chest. As in other diplodocids, the tail transformed into a whip-like...

though skulls of other diplodocids closely related to Diplodocus (such as Galeamopus) are well known. The skulls of diplodocids were very small compared...

Apatosaurus and other diplodocids were lined with spatulate (chisel-like) teeth which were adapted for herbivory. Like those of other diplodocids, the vertebrae...

to be unstable. Diplodocids, on the other hand, appear to have been well adapted for rearing up into a tripodal stance. Diplodocids had a center of mass...

Most studies of diplodocid relationships have found it to contain two primary subgroups: Diplodocinae (containing those diplodocids more closely related...

Sauropods evolve into giants, including brachiosaurs, titanosaurs, and diplodocids. First ceratosaurs, megalosaurs, allosaurs, and coelurosaurs therapods...

Cathetosaurus/Camarasaurus lewisi, were very common. Also common were long, low diplodocids, like Apatosaurus ajax, A. louisae, Brontosaurus excelsus, B. parvus...

skeletal structure have investigated how fast dinosaurs could run, whether diplodocids could create sonic booms via whip-like tail snapping, and whether sauropods...

as those of a diplodocid dinosaur. From this they concluded that it in fact dated from the Late Jurassic Period, like most diplodocids. The species would...

referred specimens, including the holotype, are more likely belong to diplodocids than the large Kenton 1 Quarry allosaurid, i.e., the specimens are chimeric...

preserved, and scientists have yet to discover a Barosaurus skull. Related diplodocids like Apatosaurus and Diplodocus had long, low skulls with peg-like teeth...

Tornieria ("for Tornier") is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic in Lindi Region of Tanzania. In 1907, German paleontologist...

concluding one specimen, under the name ML 414, to be more closely related to diplodocids of the Morrison Formation, and thus warranting a new binomial name. This...

and many non-avian dinosaurs such as Carnotaurus, Brachylophosaurus, diplodocids, and various ceratopsians. The term was coined by Australian paleontologist...

As in other flagellicaudatans (the group to which dicraeosaurids and diplodocids belong), the skull was elongated with an overall slender built. The preserved...

described. Dicraeosaurids are differentiated from their sister group, diplodocids, and from most sauropods by their relatively small body size and short...

characters found in both dicraeosaurids and diplodocids. Later phylogenetic analysis placed it as a member of the diplodocid subfamily Apatosaurinae, but subsequent...

vertical, rather than horizontal, sweeping motion, in contrast to most diplodocids. Camarasauridae was named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1877. Its type genus...

feature shared among all diplodocids. Apatosaurinae forms, together with Diplodocinae, the clade Diplodocidae. Diplodocids have been found in Africa...

herbivores with small heads, columnar legs, and long necks and tails. Diplodocids are further characterized by their extremely elongated necks and whip-like...

nps.gov. Retrieved 2025-06-11. Bonaparte, J.; Mateus, O. (1999). "A New Diplodocid, Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Jurassic...

based on two neck vertebrae, which are less elongate than those of other diplodocids and differ in other anatomical details. These vertebrae were originally...

below shows one hypothesis on the relationships of Galeamopus to other diplodocids, as found by the analysis of Tschopp & Mateus (2017). 2017 in archosaur...

Nemegtosauridae is a family of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs based on their diplodocid-like skulls. Only three species are known: Nemegtosaurus, Quaesitosaurus...

region. These skin types are overall more similar to those found in diplodocids and Haestasaurus than in the titanosaur embryos of Auca Mahuevo. As the...

Diplodocinae is an extinct subfamily of diplodocid sauropods that existed from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of North America, Europe, Africa and...

Nemegtosaurus, the head resembled that of diplodocids. In some titanosaurs, the skull was especially diplodocid-like due to square-shaped jaws; the titanosaur...

indicates that there may be two populations at this locality: 'normal' young diplodocids with immature bone tissues, and a second population that is likewise...

lack the bifid (divided) cervical neural spines that characterise the diplodocids and dicraeosaurids, and for this reason are considered more primitive...

Leinkupal is the only known unequivocal diplodocid from South-America and the youngest unequivocal diplodocid globally, the only known from the Cretaceous...

macronarians, were obligate herbivores. Unlike their sister group, the diplodocids, which were thought to feed on low-lying plants, camarasaurids and other...

phylogenetic analysis. Kaatedocus was relatively small compared to most diplodocids. The type individual was estimated to have been approximately 14 metres...

volcanic tuffs and ignimbrite. The dinosaurs Chilesaurus and indeterminate diplodocids and the mesoeucrocodylian Burkesuchus are known from the formation. The...

prompted informed speculation that the missing body was built like those of diplodocids. During the Combined Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expeditions in...

A diplodocid ingesting gastroliths entangled in vegetation it is consuming...

of M. fragillimus, though he cautioned that relative proportions in diplodocids could vary from species to species. Assuming the same proportions as...

available for scientists. Those include important specimens such as complete diplodocid skull, tyrannosaurid teeth, sauropod vertebrae, and many holotypes. The...

of the late Jurassic, North America and Africa were dominated by the diplodocids and brachiosaurids and, by the end of the Late Cretaceous, titanosaurids...

larger, although these are only known from very scant remains. Some diplodocids, such as Supersaurus and Diplodocus may have exceeded Argentinosaurus...

to their hypothesis based on these specimens that nearly all Morrison diplodocid species are either growth stages or represent sexual dimorphism among...

length and had 19 teeth. In contrast to the more squared-off jaws of diplodocids, the front of the mandibles met at an oblique angle. Two as-yet-undescribed...

here, including Apatosaurus, Camarasaurus, Diplodocus, a supersaurid, a diplodocid. Rabbit Valley is accessed by Interstate 70/U.S. Route 6/U.S. Route 50...

in length, and had a skull similar to another group of sauropods, the diplodocids. The lower jaw had a distinctive, sharp ridge immediately behind a reduced...

the area. Lusotitan was the largest sauropod in the region, while the diplodocids Dinheirosaurus and Lourinhasaurus were also present. Dacentrurus and...

therefore have covered a wider range of vegetational zones than for example diplodocids. Camarasaurids, which were similar in tooth morphology to brachiosaurids...

to their hypothesis based on these specimens that nearly all Morrison diplodocid species are either growth stages or represent sexual dimorphism among...

brachiosaurids), and the longer but slenderer and more light-weight forms (mainly diplodocids). Because different methods of estimation sometimes give conflicting...

difference possibly associated with feeding behaviors is found in the diplodocids. Creisler B, 'Chinese Dinosaurs:Naming The Dragons' The Dinosaur Report...

the clade Dicraeosauridae. Dicraeosaurids are closely related to the diplodocids (which includes the namesake Diplodocus), and are characterised by their...

kg in 2003, based on comparison to diplodocids. In 2020, no longer considering it to have affinities to diplodocids, he estimated its mass as approximately...

mamenchisaurid included. Xinjiangtitan shares several derived characters with diplodocids, including prominent ambiens process of pubis, relatively short hind...

colleagues, in 2007, concluded that the bifurcated neural spines of diplodocids and dicraeosaurids enclosed an air sac, which would have been connected...

P.; Currie, P.J. (1997). "Supersonic sauropods? Tail dynamics in the diplodocids" (PDF). Paleobiology. 23 (4): 393–409. Bibcode:1997Pbio...23..393M. doi:10...

a similar animal Apatosaurus, a different, closely related genus of diplodocids that was once considered to be synonymous with Brontosaurus Bronto (disambiguation)...

Myhrvold, Nathan P. (1997). "Supersonic sauropods? Tail dynamics in the diplodocids" (PDF). Paleobiology. 23 (4): 393–409. Bibcode:1997Pbio...23..393M. doi:10...

more slender and peg-shaped teeth were considered titanosaurs. This put diplodocids and titanosaurids together in one group based on their similar teeth...

within the superfamily Diplodocoidea, which also contains the long-necked diplodocids and the short-necked dicraeosaurids. The eponymous subfamily Nigersaurinae...

the neck seen in most sauropod lineages (brachiosaurids, titanosaurs, diplodocids, etc.) and indicates that this group of sauropods was "progressively...

on the bottom surface of some anterior caudals, a feature present in diplodocids and multiple titanosaurs. Anterior caudals are shorter proportionally...

considered a diplodocid at the time, and suggested that the two probably represent a previously unrecognized clade of sauropods distinct from diplodocids. The...

the narrow-gauged Parabrontopodus, which might have been produced by diplodocids, and the wide-gauged Brontopodus, which might have been produced by brachiosaurids...

Herrerasaurids Tyrannosaurids Allosaurids Abelisaurids Mamenchisaurids Turiasaurs Diplodocids Rebbachisaurids Camarasaurids Euhelopodids Silesaurids Thescelosaurids...

with longer necks and shorter tails compared to other families like diplodocids and dicraeosaurids. Being a mamenchisaurid, Hudiesaurus was likely a...

spinosaurids, coelophysids, and allosauroids. Seeing the occurrence in diplodocid dinosaurs of interclavicles, Tschopp and Mateus (2013) proposed that the...

was significantly reduced according to many (but not all) estimates. Diplodocids, basal macronarians, and mamenchisaurids took the brunt of the extinction...

Camarasaurus and Brachiosaurus were selective feeders while the square-snouted diplodocids and rebbachisaurids were bulk feeders. The diet of adult Camarasaurus...

retrieved 1 April 2019 Remes, Kristian (2009), "Taxonomy of Late Jurassic diplodocid sauropods from Tendaguru (Tanzania)" (PDF), Fossil Record, 12 (1): 23–46...

Benson Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Morrison Formation United States A diplodocid sauropod; a new genus for "Diplodocus" hayi Holland (1924). Gspsaurus...

more sophisticated models, however, suggest that while the tails of some Diplodocid Dinosaurs could be used as whips, they likely would not have been able...

that the remains were discovered alongside a few bones from an unrelated diplodocid sauropod. In 2015, the type species C. diegosuarezi was named and described...

brachiosaur, since they have small thumb claws at ground level (as opposed to diplodocids and camarasaurids, whose thumb metacarpals are short and hold their thumb...

surpassed by the 15-meter neck of some of the largest mamenchisaurids and diplodocids. Chinese: 大夏巨龙; pinyin: Dàxiàjùlóng; meaning "Daxia giant" after a tributary...

"Tactile tails: a new hypothesis for the function of the elongate tails of diplodocid sauropods". Historical Biology. 33 (10): 2057–2066. Bibcode:2021HBio....

colleagues found that Saurophaganax is a chimera, comprising the fossils of a diplodocid sauropod as well as Allosaurus fossils. One of these Allosaurus fossils...

Myhrvold, Nathan (1997). "Supersonic sauropods? Tail dynamics in the diplodocids". Paleobiology. 23 (4): 393–409. Bibcode:1997Pbio...23..393M. doi:10...

(Early Cretaceous, Berriasian to Valanginian) Argentina The youngest known diplodocid Leonerasaurus 2011 Las Leoneras Formation (Early Jurassic, Sinemurian...

Diplodocus, possibly pointing to the ecological niche partitioning among diplodocids and to Apatosaurus' preference for a food source with tougher vegetation...

Oliver W. M.; Carballido, José L.; Pol, Diego (3 September 2015). "A diplodocid sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Cañadón Calcáreo Formation of...

However, in 2022 a more sophisticated model revealed that while some diplodocid dinosaurs could possibly have used their tails as whips, they wouldn't...

year later, however, the Porto Dinheiro specimen was reinterpreted as a diplodocid, and given the new name Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis. The authors of...

informed speculation that the missing body was formed like those of diplodocids. It is possible that Nemegtosaurus, also known from only skull material...

Officer Nathan Myhrvold to create a computer model demonstrating that diplodocids could snap their tails like whips, and create small sonic booms. In addition...

elongated prezygapophyses (as in some theropods such as dromaeosaurids). Diplodocid sauropods featured an elongated, whip-like tail, while the tails of some...

ISBN 978-0-253-00054-5. Remes, Kristian (2007). "A second Gondwanan diplodocid dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Tendaguru Beds of Tanzania, East Africa"...

Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) Morrison Formation US An apatosaurine diplodocid. Camptonotus Preoccupied. Othniel Charles Marsh Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)...

vertebrae also became longer towards the end of the tail, as seen in diplodocids, and were powered by enlarged hypaxial musculature, as indicated by the...

Valid Marsh Kimmeridgian-Tithonian Morrison Formation South Dakota A diplodocid Ceratops paucidens Comb. nov. Nomen dubium Marsh Maastrichtian Laramie...

remains have also been referred to camarasaurids, brachiosaurids, and diplodocids. Aragosaurus has been identified as a camarasaurid, a titanosaur, and...

assigned to the ichnogenus Parabrontopodus, typically attributed to diplodocids, as well as theropod footprints defining a new ichnogenus, Jurabrontes...

whereas other versions, such as WhatsApp's, more closely resemble a diplodocid with a horizontal neck posture. Following the announcement and release...

Gallina; Sebastián Apesteguía; Alejandro Haluza; Juan I. Canale (2014). "A Diplodocid Sauropod Survivor from the Early Cretaceous of South America". PLOS ONE...

types of Tehuelchesaurus are overall more similar to those found in diplodocids and Haestasaurus than in the titanosaur embryos of Auca Mahuevo. As the...

Sidney H. Haughton as a species of Gigantosaurus (an invalid name for the diplodocid currently known as Tornieria). Haughton considered it closely related...

Tendaguria tanzaniensis, Wamweracaudia keranjei, as well as indeterminate diplodocids, flagellicaudatans, and turiasaurians. They would have coexisted with...

edge of the front of the lower jaw, seen in both dicraeosaurids and diplodocids, and to some extent Camarasaurus. The lower jaw bears thirteen teeth;...

this formation, including the dicraeosaurid Pilmatueia, an indeterminate diplodocid, an indeterminate possible dicraeosaurid, and the carcharodontosaurid...

multiple dinosaur genera, since some specimens most likely belong to a diplodocid sauropod, while the other referred allosaurid specimens belong to a novel...

neural spine often bears a lamina along its midline, similar to that of diplodocids and titanosaurs but less well-developed. The known specimens of Eucamerotus...

Diplodocinae indet. Indeterminate Tithonian Variety of material A diplodocine diplodocid. Various remains of indeterminate diplodocine, including a large (150 cm...

Comahuesaurus, at 1.13 metres (3.7 ft) long. The femur of Amphicoelias altus, a diplodocid from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of the United States estimated...

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 8: 121–126. Charig, A.J. (1980). "A diplodocid sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous of England". In Jacobs, L.L. (ed.)...

(Dinosauria: Sauropoda) and implications for pneumatic variation among diplodocid dorsal ribs". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 43 (5). e2316665. doi:10...

for neurocentral closure timing, and the cervico-dorsal transition in diplodocids". PeerJ. 5 e3179. doi:10.7717/peerj.3179. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 5417106...

Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva; Luis Espinosa-Arrubarrena (2020). "Remains of a diplodocid (Sauropoda: Flagellicaudata) from the Otlaltepec Formation Middle Jurassic...

originally referred to Brachiosaurus. Tornieria T. sp. Mashonaland North, Zimbabwe Tithonian A diplodocne diplodocid; originally referred to Barosaurus....

hdl:2246/454. S2CID 84035285. Remes, Kristian (2007). "A second Gondwanan diplodocid dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Tendaguru Beds of Tanzania, East Africa"...

which included tough leaves and pulpy fruits. Due to competition with diplodocid sauropods, Mymoorapelta seems more adapted for open environments. Mymoorapelta...

Bajadan faunal assemblage. It coexisted with an indeterminate species of diplodocid and the small, early carcharodontosaur Lajasvenator. Podocarp trees were...

Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) Morrison Formation USA A diplodocine diplodocid. Type species D. longus Epanterias Gen et sp nov Nomen dubium Cope Late...

Waskow K, Scannella JB, Nordén KK, Wilson JP (October 2018). "The Smallest Diplodocid Skull Reveals Cranial Ontogeny and Growth-Related Dietary Changes in the...

; Klein, N. (2007). "A nearly complete skeleton of an early juvenile diplodocid (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Lower Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic)...

what it does not understand with its clubbed tail, and a whip-tailed diplodocid who enjoys beating up predators. Bakker prominently features the adventures...

including a basal eusauropod, a brachiosaurid, a dicraeosaurid and a derived diplodocid. If the referral of teeth from Ethiopia to Paranthodon is correct, then...

for neurocentral closure timing, and the cervico-dorsal transition in diplodocids". PeerJ. 5 e3179. doi:10.7717/peerj.3179. PMC 5417106. PMID 28480132...

ISBN 0-521-36672-0. McIntosh, J.S.; Coombs, W.P.; Russell, D.A. (1992). "A new diplodocid sauropod (Dinosauria) from Wyoming, U.S.A.". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology...

Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) United States ( Montana) Shares features with both diplodocids and dicraeosaurids, but is most likely a member of the latter group Suzhousaurus...

neck and a huge, elephant-like body. Its head resembles the head of a diplodocid, with a long, narrow snout and nostrils on the top of its skull. It was...

include "Foot Site" or FS, which contains parts of at least three juvenile diplodocid with articulated hands and feet, "There You Are" or TYA, which contains...

fossil record also comprises a sauropod Titanosaur, a Camarasaur and a Diplodocid. Geology of Aysén Region Geology of Chile Tobífera Formation Suárez, Manuel;...

Morrison Formation and its implication for the evolution and ontogeny of diplodocid dinosaurs". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 11 (7): 853–888. Bibcode:2013JSPal...

Compsognathus. The Porto Dinheiro locality included dinosaurs such as the diplodocid Dinheirosaurus as well as early mammals such as Portopinheirodon. Schwarz...

2015.1129518. S2CID 86333646. Bonaparte, J.; Mateus, O. (1999). "A New Diplodocid, Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Jurassic...

providing evidence of new scale shapes and patterns never before seen in diplodocids, is described from the Mother's Day Quarry (Bighorn Basin, Montana, United...

1080/02724634.1999.10011181. Bonaparte, J.F.; Mateus, O. (1999). "A new diplodocid, Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Jurassic...

Paléobiologie. 26 (2): 505–591. Remes, Kristian (2007). "A second Gondwanan diplodocid dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Tendaguru Beds of Tanzania, East Africa"...

quarry and gradually recovered a significant portion of the rear half of a diplodocid sauropod dinosaur. In 1991 this dinosaur was formally described as the...

Gallina; Sebastián Apesteguía; Alejandro Haluza; Juan I. Canale (2014). "A Diplodocid Sauropod Survivor from the Early Cretaceous of South America". PLOS ONE...

John B.; Nordén, Klara K.; Wilson, John P. (2018-10-11). "The Smallest Diplodocid Skull Reveals Cranial Ontogeny and Growth-Related Dietary Changes in the...

for neurocentral closure timing, and the cervico-dorsal transition in diplodocids". PeerJ. 5 e3179. doi:10.7717/peerj.3179. PMC 5417106. PMID 28480132...

Rauhut, Oliver W. M.; Carballido, José L.; Pol, Diego (2015-09-03). "A diplodocid sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Cañadón Calcáreo Formation of...

identifiable to the family level) are also known. Remains attributable to diplodocids (possibly also dwarfed) and stegosaurs have also been found, alongside...

smallest diplodocid skull reported so far, and a study on the implications of this finding for inferring the ontogeny of the skull of diplodocids, is published...

Morrison Formation and its implication for the evolution and ontogeny of diplodocid dinosaurs" (PDF). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 11 (7): 853–888...

sauropods Lourinhasaurus, Lusotitan, Zby and an indeterminate species of diplodocid, the stegosaur Miragaia, and the ornithopod Hypsilophodon. Mocho, Pedro;...

Late Jurassic US ( Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah) An apatosaurine diplodocid. The type species is A. ajax. Atlantosaurus Nomen dubium Marsh Late Jurassic...

Gallina, P. A.; Apesteguía, S. N.; Haluza, A.; Canale, J. I. (2014). "A Diplodocid Sauropod Survivor from the Early Cretaceous of South America". PLOS ONE...

quarry and gradually recovered a significant portion of the rear half of a diplodocid sauropod dinosaur. In 1991 this dinosaur was formally described as the...

the Bathonian-Callovian. Baron (2020) argues that the elongate tails of diplodocid sauropods were used for herding co-ordination. A review of the distribution...

ISBN 9783540520849. McIntosh, J.S., W.P. Coombs, and D.A. Russell. 1992. A new diplodocid sauropod (Dinosauria) from Wyoming, USA. J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 12 (2):...

Ciências de Lisboa 37: 111–124. Bonaparte, J.F., & Mateus, O. (1999). "A new diplodocid, Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Jurassic...

Gallina, P. A.; Apesteguía, S. N.; Haluza, A.; Canale, J. I. (2014). "A Diplodocid Sauropod Survivor from the Early Cretaceous of South America". PLOS ONE...