Athenar bermani Athenar
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Athenar 5 m (16.4 ft) long
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- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (163–145 Mya)
- Place
- United States · Utah, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dicraeosauridae
Athenar is an extinct genus of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Utah, United States. The genus contains a single species, Athenar bermani, which was described by John Whitlock and colleagues in 2025 based on the holotype specimen CM 26552: a and previously ascribed to the genus Diplodocus. The specimen was found in rocks belonging to the Morrison Formation at the Carnegie Quarry at Dinosaur National Monument.
Athenar existed during the Tithonian age of the Late Jurassic, and would have lived alongside other dinosaurs such as the carnivorous Allosaurus and the herbivorous Stegosaurus, Diplodocus and Camptosaurus.
What we know
- Named by Whitlock et al., 2025.
- Fossils found in United States and Utah, USA.