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Dicraeosaurus
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This dinosaur is named 'forked lizard' because of the forked spines in its backbone.
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- Pronounced
- die-KRAY-oh-SORE-us
- Meaning of name
- forked lizard
- Length
- 20m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Jurassic
(150 - 135 million years ago) - Found in
- Tanzania
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Diplodocoidea, Dicraeosauridae, Dicraeosaurus
- Named by
- Janensch (1914)
- Type species
- hansemanni