[D] Camarasaurus grandis [Su]
Describer
Marsh, 1877
Time
Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian Tithonian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Camarasauridae Camarasaurinae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Morrison Formation, Colorado, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, US
Fall Under
Camarasaurus
Info
Skull
Camarasaurus = Caulodon diversidens (Cope, 1877) Caulodon leptoganus (Cope, 1878) Morosaurus (Marsh, 1878) Uintasaurus (Holland, 1919)
Camarasaurus > Camarasaurus supremus (Cope, 1877) >> Camarasaurus leptodirus (Cope, 1879) Amphicoelias latus (Cope, 1877) Caulodon diversidens (Cope, 1877) Caulodon leptoganus (Cope, 1878)
Camarasaurus > Camarasaurus grandis (Marsh, 1877) = Apatosaurus grandis (Marsh, 1877) >> Morosaurus impar (Marsh, 1878) Morosaurus robustus (Marsh, 1878) Pleurocoelus montanus (Marsh, 1896)
Camarasaurus > Camarasaurus lentus (Marsh, 1889) = Morosaurus lentus (Marsh, 1889) >> Camarasaurus annae (Ellinger, 1950) Uintasaurus douglassi (Holland, 1919)
Camarasaurus > Camarasaurus alenquerensis (Lapparent & Zbyszewski, 1957) = Apatosaurus alenquerensis (Lapparent & Zbyszewski, 1957) Camarasaurus lewisi (Jensen, 1988) = Cathetosaurus lewisi (Jensen, 1988)
At least 6 partial skeletons, including 2 skulls, hundreds of postcranial elements. Note that Madsen et al. (1995, Bull. Carnegie MNM 31) suggest that Camarasaurus lentus might be referrable to Camarasaurus grandis, but provisionally retain Camarasaurus lentus for now.
Specimen (GMNH 101) [Gunma Museum of Natural History] of Orem,Utah, at a locality not far from the famous American Museum Of Natural History\\\\\\\'s Bone Cabin Quarry (BCQ) in Albany County,northeast of Medicine Bow, Wyoming is approximately 65% complete, consisting is a large part of an articulated skeleton which is in many ways quite unusual. Preserved are the skull and mandible, cewrvical vertebrae 1-8, dorsal neural arches 6-12, most of the dorsal ribs, the articutaled sacrum lacking centra, a nearly complete set of caudal vertebrae lacking only the centra of the nos. 1 and 2, 18 chevrons , part of the right scapula, left coracoid, left humerus and fragments of the right, partial left ulna, partial left manus, right ilium, pubes, ischia, and nearly complete right hind limb and pes, head of the left femur and part of thje left pes.