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Brachytrachelopan
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Brachytrachelopan is known from partial neck and dorsal vertebrae (part of the backbone), ribs, a partial pelvis and limb bones. This dinosaur had, proportionately, the shortest neck of any known sauropod.
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- Pronounced
- brak-i-trak-eh-loh-pan
- Meaning of name
- short-necked Pan [shepherd god]
- Length
- 10m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Mid Jurassic
(150 million years ago) - Found in
- Argentina
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Diplodocoidea, Dicraeosauridae, Brachytrachelopan
- Named by
- Rauhut, Remes, Fechner, Cladera and Puerta (2005)
- Type species
- mesai