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	Brachiosauridae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brachiosauridae is a family of dinosaurs, whose members are known as Brachiosaurids.
		They were herbivorous quadrupeds with longer forelegs than hind legs (hence the name, Greek for arm lizard), and long, near-vertical necks.
		Despite their apparently distinctive features, there is some dispute as to whether Brachiosauridae is really a distinct family or merely a collection of basal Titanosauriforms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brachiosauridae (327 words)

	brachiosauridae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Brachiosauridae, as I have it here, may not really exist.
		Brachiosauridae: The latest known brachiosaurid may be from the late Campanian (LK) of Mexico, based on a caudal vert.
		Known from four tree-trunk sized cervicals (in fact, they were initially mistaken for petrified logs), this sauropod had the longest neck of any known animal, possibly forty feet in length.
	personal2.stthomas.edu /jstweet/brachiosauridae.htm (520 words)

	riggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		So different is its structure form theta of the members of the Opisthocoelia that the writer feels justified in placing it in a new family.
		The Brachiosauridae is, therefore, proposed as a family group, to include this genus together with the smaller and more primitive form recently described by Hatcher under the name Haplocanthosaurus.
		The family characters so far observed are: Humerus as long as femur; neural spines of vertebrae simple; dorsal vertebrae more than ten.
	server1.thermopwy.net /bhbf/riggs.html (1191 words)

	macronaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Macronaria is composed of three main groups: Camarasauridae, Brachiosauridae and Titanosauria.
		The camarasaurids are a basal group that, independent of derived diplodocoids, some odd Jurassic Asian sauropods, and the Opisthocoelicaudiinae, developed bifid neural spines.
		Sometimes referred to Pelorosaurus, the material Ornithopsis is based on (two dorsals) is not good enough to be sure.
	personal2.stthomas.edu /jstweet/macronaria.htm (850 words)

	RE: Dino placements... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It might lie outside the Oviraptoridae-Caenagnathidae clade, or it might be inside it.
		_Camarasaurus_ is not in EITHER Brachiosauridae or Diplodocidae.
		It is, however, in Macronaria (a group that also contains Brachiosauridae and Titanosauria, but does not contain Diplodocidae.) Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
	dml.cmnh.org /2001Nov/msg00013.html (178 words)

	Sauropoda - TheBestLinks.com - Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, Genera, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They were the largest animals ever to have lived on land.
		Sauropod families include the Brachiosauridae, Camarasauridae, Titanosauridae, Diplodocidae.
		Well-known genera include Apatosaurus (also known as Brontosaurus), Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Sauropoda-bp-printable-v-yes-ep-.html (97 words)

	DinoWight - Other Dinosaurs
		This dinosaur is known from a single cervical vertebra, which measures somewhere in the region of 75cm in length, and is relatively complete though it is partially crushed.
		There is enough present, however, to assign it to the Brachiosauridae, with many similarities with the North American genus Sauroposeidon, although there is enough differences to determine it as a new taxon, although it may belong to one of the already known brachiosaurids from the Isle of Wight.(A bit about Isle of Wight Brachiosaurs)
		This represents the largest known brachiosaurid vertebra known from Europe, and is similar in scale to Brachiosaurus from Tanzania, Africa.
	www.geocities.com /dinowight/otherdino.html (1125 words)

	riggs3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The genus Brachiosaurus, together with the smaller related form, Haplocanthosaurus.
		should be placed in a new family of the optisthocoelia for which the name Brachiosauridae is here proposed.
		The distinguishing characters of this family, so far as known, are: Humerus as long as femur; neural spines of the vertebrae simple; dorsal vertebrae numbering more than ten.
	server1.thermopwy.net /bhbf/riggs3.html (3192 words)

	transitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The ancient soils preserved in the Yellow Cat Member contain carbonate nodules indicating a semi-arid climate that was probably much like the underlying Jurassic Morrison Formation (Kirkland et al., 1999)
		The middle fauna (Poison Strip Sandstone and Ruby Ranch Member) contains Theropods (Dromaeosauridae, Allosauridae?), Sauropods (Brachiosauridae), Ornithopods (Iguanodontidae), and Ankylosaurs (Nodosauridae) (Kirkland et al.,1999).
		Pollen indicates that flowering plants (angiosperms) were becoming significantly more abundant than in the Yellow Cat Member (Wing and Sues, 1992).
	www.pnc.edu /dino/transitions/transitions.html (396 words)

	Re: Science is CHANGING
		The clearest expression I can think of is the following reduced cladogram: --+--Diplodocimorpha
		`--+--Brachiosauridae `--Titanosauria and this _answers the question_ IMHO: Camarasaurus and whatever its closest relatives are is in the sister group to (Brachiosauridae + Titanosauria), not Brachiosauridae alone (as thought for decades).
		:-) > neosauropod eusauropod > families listed in the order that they may have > split off cladistically: > > 6C Euhelopodidae > D Diplodocidae > E Camarasauridae > F Brachiosauridae > G Titanosauridae (incl.
	dml.cmnh.org /2001Oct/msg00473.html (496 words)

	Brachiosaurus Fact Sheet - EnchantedLearning.com
		Phylum Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain)
		Family Brachiosauridae giraffe-stanced sauropods (with arms longer than legs)
		Unlike most other dinosaurs, the front legs of Brachiosaurus were longer than the hind legs (hence its name, "arm lizard").
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/facts/Brachiosaurus (192 words)

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