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Diplodocus carnegii Hatcher, 1901 sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic of Wyoming, USA (public display, holotype specimen - CM 84 & CM 94 & CM 307, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA).

This is the holotype specimen of the sauropod dinosaur Diplodocus carnegii. The mounted skeleton consists of 3 partial skeletons found at the same site. Diplodocus bones were found in greenish-gray calcareous mudshales (mudrocks; siliclclastic mudstones) representing an ephemeral freshwater lake deposit.

Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha, Diplodocidae

Stratigraphy: Talking Rock facies, Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation, Upper Jurassic

Locality: Bone Quarry Draw (a tributary of Sheep Creek), Albany County, southeastern Wyoming, USA
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Author James St. John

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