Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin (ISSN 0178 – 6288) . Number 120, December 2014, pp. 1-29. | Page 13
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My beloved wife Ola Khalaf is taking pictures of me for the “National Geographic Al-Arabiya”
Magazine infront of the Dubai Mall Long-necked Whip-tailed Sauropod Dinosaur (Amphicoelias
brontodiplodocus Galiano and Albersdörfer, 2010) ... Photo by my beloved daughter Nora Khalaf.
20.03.2014. https://www.flickr.com/photos/50022881@N00/13898309874/
Classification
Edward Drinker Cope described his finds in two 1878 issues of the American
Naturalist, and assigned them to the new genus Amphicoelias. He placed it in a
unique family, Amphicoeliidae, though this is now considered a nomen
oblitum (forgotten name). The genus is usually assigned to the family
Diplodocidae, though some modern analyses have found it at the base of the
larger group Diplodocoidea or as a diplodocid incertae sedis (uncertain
placement). The first named species in the genus, Amphicoelias altus (holotype
specimen AMHD 5764), was discovered by Cope in 1877. But while it is only
represented by a partial skeleton, there are enough diagnostic characteristics to
provisionally define the genus. Amphicoelias altus is known from better remains,
but is smaller than Amphicoelias fragillimus. Cope also named a third species in
1878: Amphicoelias latus (Wikipedia).
Osborn and Mook, in 1921, provisionally synonymized the three species,
sinking Amphicoelias latus into Amphicoelias altus, and suggesting also that
Amphicoelias fragillimus is just a very large individual of Amphicoelias altus, a
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