Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1877. On Amphicoelias, a genus of Saurians from the Dakota epoch of Colorado. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17:242-246
Belongs to Amphicoelias according to P. D. Mannion et al. 2021
See also Carpenter 1997, Carpenter 1999, Carpenter 2006, Chure et al. 2006, Cope 1877, Cope 1878, Cope 1878, Cope 1878, Cope 1878, Cope 1879, Cope 1891, Cope 1898, Decker 2012, Galiano and Albersdörfer 2010, Galiano and Albersdörfer 2010, Harris 2006, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Mateus 2006, McIntosh 1990, McIntosh 2005, Mook 1916, Nopcsa 1901, Osborn and Mook 1919, Osborn and Mook 1919, Paul 1988, Steel 1970, Tschopp and Mateus 2013, Tschopp et al. 2015, Upchurch et al. 2004, Wilson 2002, Woodruff and Foster 2014 and Zittel 1890
Sister taxon: Amphicoelias brontodiplodocus
Type specimen: AMNH FARB 5764, a set of postcrania (2 dorsal vertebrae, pubis, femur). Its type locality is Cope Quarry XII, which is in a Tithonian terrestrial sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Colorado.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at Cope Quarry XII
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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