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Diplodocus carnegii

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Diplodocus carnegii was named by Hatcher (1901). Its type specimen is CM 84, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Carnegie Quarry D, Sheep Creek, which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian lacustrine horizon in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.

It was synonymized subjectively with Amphicoelias altus by Galiano and Albersdörfer (2010) and Galiano and Albersdörfer (2010).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1901Diplodocus carnegii Hatcher
1905Diplodocus carnegii Holland p. 935
1905Diplodocus carnegiei Osborn p. 562
1908Diplodocus carnegii Fraas p. 144
1911Diplodocus carnegiei Drevermann p. 278
1911Diplodocus carnegiei Holland p. 1
1914Diplodocus carnegii Huene p. 587 figs. Pl. 9:1
1915Diplodocus carnegiei Holland p. 3
1916Diplodocus carnegiei Holland p. 3
1916Diplodocus carnegii Mook p. 139
1919Diplodocus carnegiei Lull p. 11
1921Diplodocus carnegiei Anonymous p. 46
1924Diplodocus carnegiei Holland p. 383
1924Diplodocus carnegiei Joleaud p. 45
1927Diplodocus carnegii Huene p. 470 figs. Pl. 15
1928Diplodocus carnegii Parkinson p. 283
1929Diplodocus carnegiei Holland p. 37
1930Diplodocus carnegii Hay p. 199
1930Diplodocus carnegiei Holland p. 37
1930Diplodocus carnegiei Moodie p. 113
1932Diplodocus carnegii Gilmore p. 7
1933Diplodocus carnegii Anonymous p. 306
1934Diplodocus carnegiei Avinoff p. 40
1934Diplodocus carnegii Swinton p. 32
1936Diplodocus carnegii Gilmore p. 246
1936Diplodocus carnegii Stromer p. 81
1938Diplodocus carnegiei Anonymous p. 214
1938Diplodocus carnegii Wilfarth p. 275
1949Diplodocus carnegiei Anonymous p. 255
1951Diplodocus carnegiei Kay p. 54
1964Diplodocus carnegii Tatarinov p. 546 fig. 585
1970Diplodocus carnegii Steel p. 81
1970Diplodocus carnegii Swinton p. 179
1971Diplodocus carnegiei Berman p. 93
1972Diplodocus carnegiei Miller p. 1
1978Diplodocus carnegii Bonaparte p. 427 fig. 202
1978Diplodocus carnegii Ingavat and Taquet pp. SP1-2
1981Diplodocus carnegii McIntosh p. 20
1982Diplodocus carnegii McGinnis p. 15
1983Diplodocus carnegiei Monbaron p. 226
1990Diplodocus carnegii Breithaupt p. 10
1990Diplodocus carnegii McIntosh p. 24
1992Diplodocus carnegii Mcintosh et al. p. 164
1993Diplodocus carnegiei Hunt and Lucas p. 73
1994Diplodocus carnegii Filla and Redman p. 169
1995Diplodocus carnegii Curtice p. 25A
1995Diplodocus carnegii Upchurch p. 382
1996Diplodocus carnegiei Bakker p. 45
1997Diplodocus carnegiei Currie and Padian p. 369
1997Diplodocus carnegii McIntosh p. 657
1999Diplodocus carnegii Bonaparte p. 141
2000Diplodocus carnegiei Lucas and Heckert p. 44
2003Diplodocus carnegii Heckert et al. p. 323
2004Diplodocus carnegii Upchurch et al. p. 264
2005Diplodocus carnegii Apesteguía p. 250
2005Diplodocus carnegii Bedell, Jr. and Trexler p. 302
2005Diplodocus carnegii Gallina and Apesteguía p. 158
2005Diplodocus carnegii McIntosh p. 51
2006Diplodocus carnegii Carpenter p. 133
2006Diplodocus carnegii Chure et al. p. 236
2006Diplodocus carnegii Harris p. 1104
2006Diplodocus carnegii Herne and Lucas p. 140
2006Diplodocus carnegii Lucas et al. p. 160
2006Diplodocus carnegii Mateus p. 231
2006Diplodocus carnegii Moser et al. p. 44
2007Diplodocus carnegii Schwarz et al. p. 245
2008Diplodocus carnegii Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. p. 191
2011Diplodocus carnegii Taylor et al. p. 81 fig. 3
2011Diplodocus carnegii Tucker p. 529
2013Diplodocus carnegii Breithaupt p. 49
2013Diplodocus carnegii Tschopp and Mateus p. 325
2014Diplodocus carnegii Woodruff and Foster p. 213
2015Diplodocus carnegii Salgado et al. p. 422
2015Diplodocus carnegii Tschopp et al.
2019Diplodocus carnegii Tschopp et al. p. 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropoda()
—Gravisauria
—Eusauropoda
—Neosauropoda
—Diplodocoidea()
—Diplodocimorpha
—Flagellicaudata
—Diplodocidae()
—Diplodocinae(Janensch 1929)
genusDiplodocus
speciescarnegii

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Diplodocus carnegii Hatcher 1901
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Body mass estimates
estimateequationreference
 17.1 tons Sauropoda femur circumferenceAnderson et al. 1985
Measurements
partNmean
femur circumference1510.0
fibula circumference1240.0
tibia circumference1358.0

Composition: hydroxyapatiteinfrao
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10^4 to < 10^5g
Thickness: thickinfrao
Architecture: compact or denseinfrao
Form: sphericalinfrao
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partsinfrao
Grouping: gregariousinfrao
Environment: terrestrialinfrao
Locomotion: actively mobileinfrao
Life habit: ground dwellinginfrao
Diet: herbivoreinfrao
Reproduction: oviparousinfrao
Dispersal: direct/internalinfrao
Dispersal 2: mobileinfrao
Created: 2005-08-24 13:39:54
Modified: 2005-08-24 15:39:54
Source: g = genus, infrao = infraorder
References: Peczkis 1995, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Kimmeridgian to the top of the Tithonian or 157.30000 to 145.00000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0USA (Wyoming) Diplodocus carnegii (13352 type locality: 57897) Diplodocus sp. (231553)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0USA (New Mexico) Diplodocus carnegiei (38872)