Dicraeosaurus

Say it die-KRAY-oh-SORE-us. The name means ‘forked lizard’.

Dicraeosaurus beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of sauropods

Length: 20 m
Diet: Plant-eater
When: Late Jurassic150 to 135 million years ago
Fossils found in: Tanzania
Named by: Janensch (1914)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Saurischia › Sauropodomorpha › Sauropoda › Diplodocoidea › Dicraeosauridae

Where Dicraeosaurus sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Sauropods. Long-necked, four-legged plant-eaters, the biggest animals ever to walk on land. See all 59

Lived at the same time

Dryosaurus · same country
Giraffatitan · same country
Barosaurus · same country
Kentrosaurus · same country
Hylaeosaurus
Nqwebasaurus
Camarasaurus
Chinshakiangosaurus

Other sauropods

Brachytrachelopan Mid Jurassic
Camarasaurus Late Jurassic
Lusotitan Late Jurassic
Apatosaurus Late Jurassic
Brachiosaurus Late Jurassic
Diplodocus Late Jurassic
Euhelopus Late Jurassic
Europasaurus Late Jurassic

Source: Dicraeosaurus in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.