Dinosaur: Giraffatitan brancai
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Length*: | 25 m | 82.0 ft |
Weight*: | 48 tons | 105,822 lb |
Speed: | 25 km/h | 16 mph |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian
Details
Status: valid
Autor: Paul
Year: 1988
Area: Africa
Country: Tanzania
Region: Mtwara
Formation: Tendaguru
Other
Material: Probably more than 30 individuals.
References: Taylor, M.P. (2009) "A re-evaluation of Brachiosaurus altithorax Riggs 1903 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) and its generic separation from Giraffatitan brancai (Janensch 1914)" .
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