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History of discovery
31 related topics
In popular culture
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Description
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Paleobiology
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Overview
- Greek Ancient Greek
- Genus
- Herbivorous
- Sauropod
- Dinosaur
- United States
- Late Jurassic
- Paleontologist
- Othniel Charles Marsh
- Type species
- Skull
- Como Bluff
- Wyoming
- Species
- Kimmeridgian
- Tithonian
- Morrison Formation
- Utah
- Taxonomic synonym Synonym (taxonomy)
- Apatosaurus
- Anatomy
- Quadrupedal
- Cervical vertebrae
- Diplodocus
- Barosaurus
- Shoulder girdle
- Pelvis
- Diplodocidae
- Brachiosaurs
- Mamenchisaurs
History of discovery
- Sauropod Sauropoda
- Yale University
- William Harlow Reed
- Latin
- Bone Wars
- Edward Drinker Cope
- YPM Peabody Museum of Natural History
- Atlantosaurus
- Marshall P. Felch Marshall P. Felch?action=edit&redlink=1
- Garden Park, Colorado
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Camarasaurus
- Brachiosaurid Brachiosauridae
- Carnegie Museum Carnegie Museum of Natural History
- Charles Gilmore Charles W. Gilmore
- Brigham Young University
- Elmer Riggs Elmer S. Riggs
- Henry Fairfield Osborn
- American Museum of Natural History
- Dinosaur National Monument
- Apatosaurus louisae
- William J. Holland William Jacob Holland
- Paleontological Society of America Paleontological Society
- Robert T. Bakker
- Tate Geological Museum
- CMC Cincinnati Museum Center
- ICZN International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- Donald Prothero
- Below Brontosaurus
- John John Foster (paleontologist)
Description
- Quadrupedal Quadruped
- Macronarians Macronaria
- Pneumatic foramina Glossary of dinosaur anatomy
- Diverticula Diverticulum
- Parapophyses Parapophyses?action=edit&redlink=1
- Neural spines Vertebra
- Cervical ribs Cervical rib
- Zygapophyses Articular processes
- Tubercules Tubercle
- Fossae Fossa (anatomy)
- Spinal cord
- Dorsal ribs Rib cage
- Sacrum
- Neural canal Neural tube
- Scapulae Scapula
- Coracoid
- Sterna Sternum
- Ilia Ilium bone
- Pubes Pubic bone
- Ischia Ischium
- Deltopectoral crest Humerus
- Bone shaft Anatomical terms of bone
- Radius Radius (bone)
- Ulna
- Phalanges Phalanx bone
- Unguals Ungual
- Tibia
- Fibula
- Astragalus Talus bone
Classification
- Family Family (taxonomy)
- Clade Cladistics
- Supersaurus
- Georgia Georgia (country)
- North America
- Atlantosauridae
- Opisthocoelia
- Junior synonym
- Cladogram
- Mateus Octávio Mateus
- Field Museum of Natural History
- Albany County, Wyoming
- Specific name Specific name (zoology)
- Lakota Lakota language
- Hair pipes Hair pipe
- Postcranial Postcrania
Paleobiology
- Semi-aquatic Semiaquatic
- Braincase Neurocranium
- Neural cord Nervous system
- Ferns Fern
- Cycadeoids Bennettitales
- Seed ferns Pteridospermatophyta
- Horsetails Equisetum
- Nonselective browser Browsing (herbivory)
- Niche partitioning
- Endotherms Endotherm
- Ectotherms Ectotherm
- Nutrition
- Metabolism
- Kilojoules Joule
- Tetrapods Tetrapod
- Crocodilians Crocodilia
- Diaphragm Thoracic diaphragm
- Dead-space volume Dead space (physiology)
- Tidal volume Lung volumes
- Parabronchi
- Avian lungs
- Holly Woodward
- Bullwhip
- Discover magazine Discover (magazine)
- Nathan Myhrvold
- Computer scientist
- Microsoft
- Computer simulation
- Decibels Decibel
- Cannon
Paleoecology
- Radiometric dating
- Oxfordian Oxfordian stage
- Stages Faunal stages
- Semi-arid
- Wet Wet season
- Dry seasons Dry season
- Front Range
- Drainage basins Drainage basin
- Rivers River
- Swampy Swamp
- Floodplains Floodplain
- Lourinhã Formation Lourinha Formation
- Portugal
- Tendaguru Formation
- Tanzania
- Nine Mile Quarry
- Bone Cabin Quarry
- Ornitholestes
- Ray-finned fishes Actinopterygii
- Frogs Frog
- Salamanders Salamander
- Turtles Turtle
- Sphenodonts Sphenodontia
- Lizards Lizard
- Crocodylomorphs Crocodylomorpha
- Pterosaurs Pterosaur
- Bivalves Bivalve
- Snails Snail
- Green algae Chlorophyta
- Mosses Moss
In popular culture
- Winsor McCay
- Gertie the Dinosaur
- The Lost World The Lost World (1925 film)
- Special effects Special effect
- Willis O'Brien
- King Kong King Kong (1933 film)
- Katharine Hepburn
- Cary Grant
- Bringing Up Baby
- Sinclair Oil Corporation
- U.S. Postal Service United States Postal Service
- Tyrannosaurus
- Pteranodon
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Bully for Brontosaurus
- Alternative rock
- They Might Be Giants
- Book Book (album)
- "Brontosaurus" Brontosaurus (They Might Be Giants song)
- AllMusic
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Brontosaurus
Top relations
related to Second Dinosaur Rush and skull issue · 42
Brontosaurus → Adam Hermann, American Museum, AMNH, Apatosaurus, As, Both, Brigham Young University, Brontosaurus Tschopp, Brushy Basin Member, BYU, Camarasaurus, Carnegie Museum, Charles Gilmore, CM, Diplodocidae, Diplodocus, During, Elmer Riggs, Elosaurus, Field Columbian Museum
related to history · 39
Brontosaurus → Apatosaurus, At, Atlantosauridae, Atlantosaurus, Because, Bone Wars, Brachiosaurus, By, Camarasaurus, Colorado, Como Bluff, Cope, Edward Drinker Cope, Felch, Felch Quarry, Garden Park, Greek, He, In, In August
related to Species · 39
Brontosaurus → Adult, Albany County, Apatosaurus, Bakker, Benson, Bertha Quarry, Brigham Young University, BYU, CM, Elosaurus, Eobrontosaurus, Field Museum, FMNH P25112, Gilmore, Greek, It, James Filla, Kimmeridgian, Lakota, Many
related to Skull correction, resurgent discoveries, and reassessment · 37
Brontosaurus → According, American Museum, Another, Apatosaurine, Apatosaurus, Bakker, Berman, Camarasaurus-like, Carnegie, CMC VP, Como Bluff, David Berman, Diplodocus, Diplodocus-like, Eobrontosaurus, Filla, Holland, However, In, James Filla
related to Paleoecology · 31
Brontosaurus → Alberta, As, Bone Cabin Quarry, Brushy Basin Member, Colorado, Fossils, Front Range, John Foster's, Kimmeridgian, Late Jurassic, Lourinhã Formation, Morrison, Morrison Formation, Mya, New Mexico, Nine Mile Quarry, Oklahoma, Older Brontosaurus, Oxfordian, Portugal
related to Classification · 30
Brontosaurus → Apatosaurinae, Apatosaurus, Atlantosauridae, Atlantosaurus, Barosaurus, British-Portuguese, Camarasaurus, Diplodocidae, Diplodocids, Diplodocus, Elmer, Eobrontosaurus, Georgia, He, However, In, Late Jurassic, Marsh, Middle Jurassic, Morosaurus
related to In popular culture · 25
Brontosaurus → Allosaurus, American, American Museum, Apatosaurus, Bringing Up Baby, Carl Denham, Cary Grant, Dinosaur, Gertie, In, Jack Driscoll, Katharine Hepburn, King Kong, McCay, Natural History, Osborn's, Riggs's, Sinclair Oil Corporation, Skull Island, The
related to Diet and energy requirements · 18
Brontosaurus → Apatosaurus, Apatosaurus's, Assuming Apatosaurus, Being, Brontosaurus-sized, Diplodocids, Diplodocus, Due, Endotherms, Estimations, Frank Paladino, Hypotheses, If Brontosaurus, James Farlow, Morrison Formation, The, These, This
related to Tail · 17
Brontosaurus → Also, An, Baron, Camarasaurus, Discover, However, Instead, Mamenchisaurus, Microsoft, More, Myhrvold, Nathan Myhrvold, November, Rega, The, There, This
related to Juveniles · 16
Brontosaurus → All, An, Apatosaurus, CM, Gilmore, Holly Woodward, In, Juvenile Brontosaurus, One, Peterson, The, These, They, This, Thomas Lehman, When
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Important terminology
apatosaurus skull species found vertebrae excelsus sauropods specimen skeleton tail would sauropod long also formation diplodocus marsh morrison like museum
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brontosaurus | is a | genus in the subfamily Apatosaurinae | 0.90 | text |
| Brontosaurus | is a | synonym for Apatosaurus | 0.90 | text |
| the sauropods Diplodocus | instance of | Brontosaurus coexisted with a menagerie of other taxa | 0.80 | text |
| Barosaurus | instance of | Brontosaurus coexisted with a menagerie of other taxa | 0.80 | text |
| and Brachiosaurus | instance of | Brontosaurus coexisted with a menagerie of other taxa | 0.80 | text |
| tree trunks when rearing.Trackways of sauropods like Brontosaurus show that the average range for them was around 20 | instance of | but the most probable use for the claw was grasping objects | 0.80 | text |
| the Araucaria-like conifer Brachyphyllum | instance of | to fern savannas with occasional trees | 0.80 | text |
| Brontosaurus | related to Classification | Diplodocidae | 0.60 | section |
| Brontosaurus | related to Classification | The | 0.60 | section |
| Brontosaurus | related to Classification | Diplodocus | 0.60 | section |
| Brontosaurus | related to Classification | Supersaurus | 0.60 | section |
| Brontosaurus | related to Classification | Barosaurus | 0.60 | section |
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Nodes221
Edges220
Triples369
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.00905
Components1
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