Diplodocimorpha
unranked clade · Calvo and Salgado 1995 · accepted · extinct
109 descendant taxa · 393 fossil sites · 37 formations · 18 countries
Lived when
Jurassic – Cretaceous
174.7–85.7 million years ago
Found where
18 countries
37 rock formations
Fossil record
393 sites
114 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 89 million years, from 174.7 to 85.7 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 85.7 million years old — that is roughly 286 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Diplodocimorpha was named in 1995 (Calvo and Salgado 1995) — 31 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 18 countries and 37 named rock formations.
- 114 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 109 named taxa, including 52 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).