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Apatosaurus

Apatosaurus (/əˌpætəˈsɔːrəs/; meaning "deceptive lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. Othniel Charles Marsh described and named the first-known species, Apatosaurus ajax, in 1877, and a second species, Apatosaurus louisae, was discovered and named by William H. Holland in 1916.…

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related to Second Dinosaur Rush and skull issue · 38
Apatosaurus → Adam Hermann, After, American Museum, AMNH, Based, Because, Bone Wars, Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, Carnegie Museum, Colorado, Como Bluff, Cope, Diplodocus, Elmer Riggs, Field Columbian Museum, Field Museum, Fruita, Grand River Valley, Hermann
related to Initial discovery · 37
Apatosaurus → All, Also, Apatosaurine, Arthur Lakes, Atlantosaurus, Beckwith, Brontosaurus, By, Colorado, Como Bluff, Cope, Cope's Quarry, During, Edward Drinker Cope, Greek, Henry, Hubbell, Jefferson County, Lakes, Marsh
related to Reassigned species · 36
Apatosaurus → Albert-Félix, Bakker, Benson, Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, Diplodocoidea, Elmer Riggs, Elosaurus, Eobrontosaurus, Georges Zbyweski, Gilmore, Henry Mook, In, It, James Filla, Lapparent, Lourinhasaurus, Macronaria, Many, Marsh
related to Classification · 25
Apatosaurus → Apatosaurinae, Atlantosauridae, Atlantosaurus, Barosaurus, Benson, Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, Cladogram, Diplodocidae, Diplodocus, Elmer, He, In, John Whitlock, Marsh, Mateus, Morosaurus, Opisthocoelia, Othniel Charles Marsh, Riggs
related to Paleoecology · 24
Apatosaurus → Additional Apatosaurus, Alberta, Brontosaurus, Brushy Basin Member, Camarasaurus, Fossils, Front Range, Kimmeridgian, Late Jurassic, Lourinhã Formation, Morrison Formation, New Mexico, Oxfordian, Portugal, Rocky Mountains, Saskatchewan, Tanzania, Tendaguru Formation, The, The Morrison Basin
related to External links · 19
Apatosaurus → April, Batuman, Brontosaurus, Brontosaurus Rising, Elif, Hartman, June, Lee, Mike, MikeTaylor, Museum, Sauropods, Scott Hartman's Skeletal Drawings, Taylor, The New YorkerKrystek, UnMuseum, Unnatural Mystery, Whatever Happened, Why
related to Valid species · 18
Apatosaurus → Ajax, AMNH, Atlantosaurus, Brontosaurus, FMNH P25112, Greek, However, In, Kimmeridgian, Many, Marsh, NSMT-PV, Paul Upchurch, The, Their, They, Tithonian, YPM
related to Recent discoveries and reassessment · 16
Apatosaurus → According, Almost, Another, Bakker, Brigham Young University, Brontosaurus, Cactus Park Quarry, CMC VP, Colorado, Despite, ICZN, In, Riggs, Robert, The, This
related to Growth · 14
Apatosaurus → An, Brontosaurus, BYU, Eva Griebeler, Holly Woodward, In, Long-bone, One, SMA, The, These, They, This, Thomas Lehman
related to Description · 12
Apatosaurus → BYU, CM, Dreadnoughtus, Giraffatitan, However, Its, Most, Nigersaurus, OMNH, Some, The, Those

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brontosaurus skull species found diplodocus ajax marsh would vertebrae genus specimen camarasaurus louisae sauropods long based 2015 neck specimens like

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Apatosaurusis amember of the diplodocid family0.90text
Apatosaurusis agenus in the family Diplodocidae0.90text
Allosaurusinstance ofApatosaurus would have lived alongside dinosaurs0.80text
Camarasaurusinstance ofApatosaurus would have lived alongside dinosaurs0.80text
Diplodocusinstance ofApatosaurus would have lived alongside dinosaurs0.80text
and Stegosaurusinstance ofApatosaurus would have lived alongside dinosaurs0.80text
tree trunks when rearing.Trackways of sauropods like Apatosaurus show that they may have had a range of around 25instance ofbut the most probable use for the claw was grasping objects0.80text
the Araucaria-like conifer Brachyphylluminstance ofto fern savannas with occasional trees0.80text
Apatosaurusrelated to ClassificationDiplodocidae0.60section
Apatosaurusrelated to ClassificationThe0.60section
Apatosaurusrelated to ClassificationDiplodocus0.60section
Apatosaurusrelated to ClassificationSupersaurus0.60section

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