Brachiosaurus

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Brachiosaurus

• Brachiosaurus means Arm lizard
• By Amanda Bernard

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About the Brachiosaurus

• The Brachiosaurus is about the tallest and
  largest dinosaurs yet
• It has a long neck,small head, relatively
  short,thick tail.

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More about the Brachiosaurus

• The Brachiosaurus was about 85feet and weighed
  about33-88 tons.
• A Brachiosaurus is a herbivore, plant eater
• The length of the Brachiosaurs was about 100 feet
  long.

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Were fossils have been found

• It was first found in the Grand river Valley
  ,USA,in 1900.
• This incomplete skeleton was described by
  paleotontologist Elmer S.Riggs,who named the
  Brachiosaurs.

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When was the Brachiosaurus alive? Why did it
become extinct?

• The Brachiosaurus lived in the late Jurassic
  time period to the early Cretaceous.
• Some dating estimates have Brachiosaurus
  surviving until 140million years ago , during the
  dawn of the Cretaceous period.

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Was it a predator or prey

• A healthy , adult Brachiosaurs prouble had no
  predators.
• The largest-known meateatersfrom that time and
  place were Allosaurs, Ceratosaurus, and
  torvosaurus. These theropods were less than half
  the size of Brachiosaurus

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sources

• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaur
  s/

http//www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/