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Opisthocoelicaudia
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Opisthocoelicaudia is known from a skeleton that lacks the skull and neck, so their reconstruction is based on similar dinosaurs.
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- Pronounced
- o-pis-tho-seel-i-cawd-ee-a
- Meaning of name
- hollow-backed tail [vertebrae]
- Length
- 12m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(72 - 68 million years ago) - Found in
- Mongolia
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Macronaria, Camarasauromorpha, Titanosauriformes, Titanosauria, Lithostrotia, Saltasauridae, Opisthocoelicaudia
- Named by
- Borsuk-Bialynicka (1977)
- Type species
- skarzynskii