Brachiosauridae
family · Riggs 1904 · accepted · extinct
27 descendant taxa · 93 fossil sites · 19 formations · 15 countries
Lived when
Jurassic – Cretaceous
161.5–93.9 million years ago
Found where
15 countries
19 rock formations
Fossil record
93 sites
49 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 68 million years, from 161.5 to 93.9 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 93.9 million years old — that is roughly 313 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Brachiosauridae was named in 1904 (Riggs 1904) — 122 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 15 countries and 19 named rock formations.
- 49 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 27 named taxa, including 11 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).