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Diplodocus Fossil & 3D Skeleton
Diplodocus carnegii
- Age
- Jurassic, about 154.8–143.1 million years ago
- Found in
- USA
- Length
- 21.0 m
- Height
- 3.6 m
- Group
- Long-necked group (sauropods, diplodocids)
How this 3D skeleton was made
This 3D model is a reconstruction. Most bone shapes (139 of 281) are borrowed from close relatives and fitted to this species' size and body proportions. The bone shapes are not the actual shapes of this species' fossils. 7 bones were shaped from photos or figures of this species' own fossils. 135 are estimated.
From this species 7Borrowed from relatives 139Estimated 135
Bones known from fossils
17 of 281 bones are known from fossils. 1 are missing and filled in. 263 have no record.
Known 17Filled in 1No record 263
Tap a bone on the 3D page to see where each bone shape came from.
Sources
- 3D skeleton: A reconstruction created on this site using freely usable resources (scientific papers, out-of-copyright books, and Wikimedia photos) (2026-10-05). Of the 281 bones (excluding teeth), 7 were modeled from photographs, drawings, and dimensions of actual fossils of this species; 139 were adapted in size by borrowing bone shapes from close relatives; and 135 were estimated. Sources used: Holland 1906 Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 2(6):225-264 The osteology of Diplodocus Marsh (archive.org/details/osteologyofdiplo26holl) (out of copyright (published before 1929; author died in 1932)) / Hatcher 1901 Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 1 (archive.org/details/diplodocusmarshi11hatc) (out of copyright (published before 1929; author died in 1904)) / Tschopp, Mateus, Benson 2015 PeerJ doi:10.7717/peerj.857 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (as stated in the text)) / Wikimedia Commons (authors listed in figures.json) (CC BY 2.0 / CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 3.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Public domain).
- Discovered bones: 17 bones are noted in literature as found fossilized or visible in photographs (the rest have not been found, or cannot be determined from the sources).
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