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Camarasaurus, Amphicoelias and other sauropods of Cope.
Biggest sauropod ever (part…. II) Darren Naish 2007
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For such a wondrous beast _Amphicoelias fragillimus_ is a terrible name indeed.
Finally, some hot giant amphicoelian action Darren Naish 2007
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Well, it was thought to belong to the genus Amphicoelias which had already been named for a rather small diplodocid, and it is "most fragile" in incorrect Latin.
Finally, some hot giant amphicoelian action Darren Naish 2007
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In the previous post we looked at the obscure and poorly known mega-sauropod Amphicoelias fragillimus, described in 1878 on the basis of an incomplete but enormous dorsal vertebra and the distal end of a femur.
Biggest sauropod ever (part…. II) Darren Naish 2007
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Camarasaurus, Amphicoelias and other sauropods of Cope.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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In August 1878 the famous and prolific scientist* Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897), portrait at left, described a new immense sauropod, Amphicoelias fragillimus, from the Garden Park quarries of the Morrison Formation of Colorado.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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Biggest of the big: a critical re-evaluation of the mega-sauropod Amphicoelias fragillimus Cope, 1878.
Biggest sauropod ever (part…. II) Darren Naish 2007
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Was Cope right in referring his second Amphicoelias species to the same genus as the first?
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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Due in part to these facts (and also, perhaps, to its poorly publicised and unfamiliar-sounding – or ‘crappy’ – name), Amphicoelias fragillimus was to be all but forgotten in the decades that followed … During the 1990s, little-known articles by John McIntosh (revered older statesman of sauropod research) and Greg Paul looked briefly at A. fragillimus.
Biggest sauropod ever (part…. II) Darren Naish 2007
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After years of suffering all-too-brief mentions, asides and speculative remarks, the oft-alluded-to but long-neglected gigantic diplodocoid sauropod Amphicoelias fragillimus has been re-examined.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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