Amphicoelias
Field photograph to come
Amphicoelias
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- Lived
- 158 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- United States and Zimbabwe
- Named by
- Cope 1877
Field notes
About Amphicoelias
Amphicoelias was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 158 to 143 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 3 finds of Amphicoelias, from Colorado and Wyoming. Its fossils come from rocks including the Morrison Formation and the Kadzi Formation. It was named by Cope in 1877.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
150 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Diplodocoidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: E. D. Cope. 1877. On Amphicoelias, a genus of Saurians from the Dakota epoch of Colorado. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17:242-246