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Supersaurus vivianae (Vivian is Visian Jones, one of the couple who found the first carnosaur metatarsal that blew dad away because according to their description of the location where they found it, they were in the Jurassic, not Cretaceous where T Rex was located. That was the beginning of the whole Dry Mesa phenomenon.
http://www.wyodino.org/research/?item=supersaurus
DESCRIBER
Jensen,1985
TIME
Jurassic Late
Kimmeridgian Tithonian
CLASSIFICATION
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Diplodocidae Diplodocinae
DIET
Herbivore
FOSSILSITE
Morrison Formation, Colorado, US
FALL UNDER
SUPERSAURUS
LENGTH
30 meter
INFO
Supersaurus (Jensen,1985) (=Ultrasauros Jensen vide Olshevsky, 1991) > S.vivianae (Jensen,1985) >> Ultrasaurus (Jensen,1985 preoccupied) Ultrasauros macintoshi (Jensen vide Olshevsky, 1991) >> Ultrasaurus macintoshi.(Jensen,1985)
Cervical vertebrae, scapulocoracoid, ischium, proximal causal vertebrae.
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