Brontosaurus

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Brontosaurus

Fossil range: Late Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder: Sauropoda
Family: Diplodocidae
Genus: Apatosaurus
Binomial name
Apatosaurus excelsus
(Marsh, 1879) vide Riggs, 1903
Synonyms
* Brontosaurus excelsus Marsh, 1879c

Brontosaurus (meaning "thunder lizard") was a dinosaur which is now considered to be an Apatosaurus. Othniel Charles Marsh, who had discovered and named Brontosaurs, thought he found a new type of dinosaur. Actually, scientists had put the head of a Camarasaurus on the body of an Apatosaurus. Some scientists argued it should be called an Apatosaurus as early as 1903. Most agreed with this by the 1970's.

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