Brachiosaurus
c. 154-150 million years ago · Event
Built like a giraffe scaled up to nightmare size: front legs longer than hind, a neck raked upward to browse the treetops thirteen metres off the ground, and a body weighing as much as ten elephants. For most of a century Brachiosaurus was the largest dinosaur known — and it is the sauropod rearing over the first astonished visitors in Jurassic Park.
On these timelines: The Age of Dinosaurs, Master
More from The Age of Dinosaurs
- Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction (66000000 BCE)
- Tyrannosaurus rex (68000000 BCE)
- Mesozoic Era (252000000 BCE)
- Paleozoic Era (541000000 BCE)
- Jurassic Period (201000000 BCE)
- Cretaceous Period (145000000 BCE)
- Triassic Period (252000000 BCE)
- Archaeopteryx and the first birds (150000000 BCE)
Around 154000000 BCE
- First flowering plants (140000000 BCE)
- Stegosaurus (155000000 BCE)
- Diplodocus (154000000 BCE)
- Brontosaurus (152000000 BCE)
- Allosaurus (155000000 BCE)