English name: Double-branched lizard
Flesh-eater or vegetarian: Vegetarian
Living period: (150 million years ago) It lived in the late Jurassic
Finding places: USA: Colorado, Utah and Wyoming
Found by: Samuel Williston found the first pieces of a Diplodocus in Colorado in 1877 and later the first complete skeleton in Wyoming in 1899. Besides that, he discovered three other species. Food: Leaves from trees and ferns
Length: 27 m. (81 ft.)
Weight: 15 t. (30,000 lbs.)
Classification:
Family Diplodocidae
Infraorder Sauropoda
Underorder Sauropodomorpha
Order Saurischia