Diplodocus
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- noun
- /dɪˈplɒdəkəs/
- Specialized
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Diplodocus
- Later, when the University of Utah needed parts of a Diplodocus for a display, it traded a section of the Barosaurus tail to the Carnegie Museum for neck parts.
- Apatosaurus and Diplodocus
Examples
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The largest, almost complete Diplodocus skeleton found so far is about ninety feet long.
Academic text (1991) -
A beautifully articulated skeleton of Diplodocus was found and named Diplodocus carnegiei.
Fiction book (1999) -
Diplodocus, whose neck was three feet longer but even less flexible, could reach only thirteen feet high from a shoulder height of nine feet.
Academic text (2007) -
Both Apatosaurus and Diplodocus could sweep their heads thirteen feet to the left or right: again, less flexibility than had often been portrayed.
Academic text (2007) -
The new evidence suggests that Apatosaurus and Diplodocus were probably best suited for feeding on low-growing plants.
Academic text (2007) -
Slender Diplodocus weighed two or three elephant units, stocky Camarasaurus six elephant units, and bulky Barosaurus and Apatosaurus as much as eight elephants.
Academic text (1991) -
The 1910 reconstruction of Diplodocus by Mary Mason Mitchell followed the views of the paleontologist Oliver P. Hay, who argued that sauropods, like other reptiles, had sprawling limbs.
Academic text (2007) -
The Diplodocus was a massive dinosaur that roamed the Earth during the Late Jurassic period.
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Fossils of Diplodocus indicate that this long-necked herbivore grew to around ninety feet in length.
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Scientists believe that Diplodocus primarily fed on low-growing plants due to its long neck.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Diplodocus comes from the Greek parts diplo- 'double' (like the English word 'double') and dokos 'beam'. The person who named it saw two long bones under its tail, so the name means 'double beam' and fits this very large, long-necked dinosaur.