Family
Valid Extinct

Brontosauridae

Jaekel 1911

Diplodocids, or members of the family Diplodocidae, are a group of sauropod dinosaurs. The family includes some of the longest creatures ever to walk the Earth, including Diplodocus and Supersaurus, some of which may have reached lengths of up to 42 metres (138 ft).

Temporal range
PBDB occurrences
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Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Brontosauridae
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Apatosaurus louisae (CM 3018) mounted fossil skeleton on display at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA © AbstractionBlue · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Saurischia Unranked clade
Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
Massopoda Unranked clade
Sauropodiformes Unranked clade
Sauropoda Unranked clade
Brontosauridae Family
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Bibliography
Original description
A. F. d. Lapparent. 1947. Les dinosauriens du Crétacé Supérieur du Midi de la France [The dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous of the south of France]. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 56:1-54