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Diplodocus
(pronounced di-PLOD-uh-kus)

Meaning of Name  Double-Beamed Lizard

Size  90 feet long with a 26 foot  long neck and a 45 foot  long tail, but its head was less than 2 feet long

Weight  10-20 tons

Features

Lived   Late Jurassic

Diet  plant eater

Locomotion  moved slowly on four legs

Where Found Rocky Mountains of the western USA (in Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming)

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