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Brontosaurus excelsus, the type species of Brontosaurus, was first named by Marsh in 1879. Many specimens have been assigned to the species, such as FMNH P25112, the skeleton mounted at the Field Museum of Natural History, which has since been found to represent an unknown species of apatosaurine.
Brontosaurus (gr. βροντή, brontē 'trueno' y σαῦρος, sauros 'lagarto', "lagarto trueno"), o brontosaurio en castellano, es un género de dinosaurio saurópodo diplodócido que vivió a finales del periodo Jurásico hace aproximadamente entre 155 a 152 millones de años en la época del Kimmeridgiense de Norteamérica.
26 de abr. de 2024 · Marsh excavated Brontosaurus’s nearly complete, but headless, skeleton from rocks dating to the Jurassic Period at Como Bluff Quarry 10, Wyoming. Shortly after he described it in the American Journal of Science, Brontosaurus became the iconic sauropod within scientific circles.
Prof Paul Barrett, a dinosaur researcher at the Museum, says, 'The skeletons of Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus are very similar to each other in many ways, and other than their general proportions are mainly distinguished by detailed differences in the neck and back, and shoulder bones.
7 de abr. de 2015 · The bones attributed to Brontosaurus excelsus, therefore, belonged to Apatosaurus excelsus. The first known Brontosaurus fossil was unearthed in the Morrison formation in Colorado. Credit:...
10 de abr. de 2012 · The skeleton was a Frankenstein. The principal part of the mount was an incomplete skeleton found near the Nine Mile Crossing of the Little Medicine Bow River in Wyoming. This one site yielded...
Well known sauropods, such as Apatosaurus (= Brontosaurus), Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus and Cetiosaurus, reached lengths approaching one hundred feet and weighed in life probably upwards of 20 or 30 ...
