Camarasaurus
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| Camarasaurus Temporal range: Upper Jurassic |
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| Camarasaurus lentus skull. | |
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Fossil
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Sauropodomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Sauropoda |
| Family: | Camarasauridae |
| Genus: | Camarasaurus Cope, 1877 |
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C. grandis |
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Camarasaurus (ca-mara-sawr-us) (meaning "chambered lizard") was a large plant-eating dinosaur. It was about 18 meters long and weighed about 18 metric tones. Its name comes from its skull, which is in the shape of an arch. It lived during the late Jurassic Period between 155 and 145 million years ago. These dinosaurs may have lived in herds.
It was first discovered in 1877 in Colorado by Oramel W. Lucas. Its bones have also been discovered in New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
There are four species of Camarasaurus:
- C. grandis ("grand chambered lizard")
- C. lentus
- C. lewisi
- C. supremus ("biggest chambered lizard")
It was shown in the movie When Dinosaurs Roamed America. A toy company named Ugobe makes toy robots that are like Camarasaurus.
