Brachytrachelopan
Field photograph to come
Brachytrachelopan
DV-0564
- Lived
- 155 to 145 million years ago, Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 10 m (33 ft)
- Group
- Sauropods, Dicraeosauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Rauhut et al. 2005
Field notes
About Brachytrachelopan
Brachytrachelopan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Jurassic, 155 to 145 million years ago. It belongs to the family Dicraeosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Brachytrachelopan, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Cañadón Calcáreo Formation. It was named by Rauhut et al. in 2005.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
150 million years ago
To scale
How big was Brachytrachelopan?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Dicraeosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: O. W. M. Rauhut, K. Remes, and R. Fechner, G. Cladera, P. Puerta. 2005. Discovery of a short-necked sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period of Patagonia. Nature 435:670-672