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Haplocanthosaurus
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Haplocanthosaurus is known from partial skeletons that lack skulls, so the shape of the head in reconstructions is based on similar dinosaurs.
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- Pronounced
- hap-lo-kan-tho-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- simple-spined lizard
- Length
- up to 21.5m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Jurassic
(154 - 142 million years ago) - Found in
- USA
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Macronaria, Camarasauromorpha, Camarasauridae, Haplocanthosaurus
- Named by
- Hatcher (1903)
- Type species
- priscus