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GALEAMOPUS
(ga-le-am-o-pus)
meaning: "need/want helmet"
Galeamopus
Named By: E. Tschopp, O. Mateus & R. B. J. Benson in 2015
Time Period: Late Jurassic, 155-152.9 Ma
Location: USA, Morrison Formation deposits in Colorado and Wyoming
Size: Holotype individual roughly about 27 meters long based upon 1.44 meter femur, 0.98 meter fibula and scaled to standard diplodocine diplodocid sauropod proportions
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Skulls and partial post cranial fossils from several individuals
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Sauropoda | Diplodocidae | Diplodocinae |
Also known as: | Diplodocus hayi |
About

Galeamopus is a genus of herbivorous diplodocid sauropod dinosaurs. It contains two known species: Galeamopus hayi, known from the Late Jurassic lower Morrison Formation (Kimmeridgian age, about 155 million years ago) of Wyoming, United States, and Galeamopus pabsti, known from the Late Jurassic fossils from Wyoming and Colorado. The type species is known from one of the most well preserved diplodocid fossils, a nearly complete skeleton with associated skull.

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