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Definition of Genus Diplodocus
1. Noun. A reptile genus of the suborder Sauropoda.
Group relationships: Sauropoda, Suborder Sauropoda
Member holonyms: Diplodocus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Diplodocus
Literary usage of Genus Diplodocus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"26«. secured in this place, is the larger part of the skeleton of an herbivorous
dinosaur, which was at first thought to belong to the genus Diplodocus. ..."
2. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"The genus Diplodocus, from the Jurassic of North America, is typically represented
by a sp smaller size than many of the preceding forms, and is regarde ..."
3. A Manual of Palæontology, for the Use of Students: For the Use of Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... FAMILY DIPLODOCID^E.—The genus Diplodocus, from the Upper Jurassic of North
America, is typically represented by a species of smaller size than many of ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"In this respect they resemble those of the allied genus Diplodocus, while they
differ from those of the majority of dinosaurs, whose bones are hollow. ..."
5. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"In this respect they resemble those of the allied genus Diplodocus, while they
differ from those of the majority of dinosaurs, whose bones are hollow. ..."