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# Brontosaurus

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? Brontosaurus Conservation status: Fossil 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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Category: Saurischia

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