© Andrey Atuchin
- Type of dinosaur:
- sauropod
- Length:
- 10.0m
- Diet:
- herbivorous
- When it lived:
- Mid Jurassic, 150 million years ago
- Found in:
- Argentina
Brachytrachelopan is known from partial neck and dorsal vertebrae (part of the backbone), ribs, a partial pelvis and limb bones. This dinosaur had, proportionately, the shortest neck of any known sauropod.
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea, Dicraeosauridae
- Named by:
- Rauhut, Remes, Fechner, Cladera and Puerta (2005)
- Type species:
- mesai
