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  Apatosaurus - Dinosaur - Enchanted Learning Software
Apatosaurus held its neck more-or-less horizontally (parallel to the ground).
Apatosaurus moved very slowly on four legs (as determined from fossilized tracks and its leg length and estimated mass).
Apatosaurus was a sauropod, whose intelligence (as measured by its relative brain to body weight, or EQ) was the among the lowest of the dinosaurs.
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 APATOSAURUS
The most famous of these was called "Brontosaurus", but it was discovered that brontosaurus fossils were the same as those of a previously named dinosaur: APATOSAURUS.
Apatosaurus was heavy, with a long muscular neck and elephant-like legs.
It had a long whiplike tail that may have been used as a defense against large predators.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Apatosaurus (), previously known as Brontosaurus, is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs that lived about 140 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period.
Nathan Myhrvold, a computer scientist from Microsoft, carried out a computer simulation of the tail of Apatosaurus, a very long, tapering tail resembling a whip, and concluded that sauropods were capable of producing a crack of over 200 decibels, comparable to the sound of a cannon.
Apatosaurus is a member of the Diplodocidae, along with Diplodocus, Barosaurus and Seismosaurus, although it is not as closely related to the others as they are to each other and hence placed in its own subfamily Apatosaurinae.
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 Apatosaurus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Apatosaurus was called Brontosaurus [Gr.,=thunder lizard] until it was discovered that the two animals were, in fact, the same.
It was herbivorous and dwelled on land, possibly in forests, using its long neck to feed from trees.
Apatosaurus bones and those of other sauropods have long been excavated in the Morrison formation of the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous strata in Colorado, Wyoming, and other Western states.
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 brontosaurus - Information from Reference.com
The species Brontosaurus excelsus was named by its discoverer Othniel Charles Marsh, in 1879 and the designation persisted as an official term in the general public's literature until at least 1974, though it was recognized as a species of a previously-named genus, Apatosaurus, in 1903.
Although now recognized by the scientific community as Apatosaurus, the name "Brontosaurus" was used for the stamp because it is more familiar to the general population.
Stephen Jay Gould supports this position in his essay "Bully for Brontosaurus", echoing Riggs' original argument that "Brontosaurus" is a synonym for "Apatosaurus".
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 apatosaurus   (Site not responding. Last check: )
An interesting fact is that Apatosaurus could reach treetops and eat the leaves and plants.
Apatosaurus had a long neck and it had a head like a horse.
Apatosaurus feet were like an elephant's feet and legs.
www.k12.hi.us /~kapunaha/student_projects/gr2dinos/index/apatosaurus.htm   (146 words)

  
 APATOSAURUS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Apatosaurus used to be called "Brontosaurus," which meant "thunder lizard" and referred to the loud
Apatosaurus was one of the largest animals ever to walk the earth.
Although not as long as its close relative Diplodocus, Apatosaurus weighed nearly three times as much, mainly because its bones were denser and its heavy tail was made up of almost 82 interlocking vertebrae.
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 Search Results for Apatosaurus
Apatosaurus was an herbivore from the Jurassic Period, with tremendously elongated neck and tail.
Apatosaurus Diorama Apatosaurus Moonlit sky, exploding volcano, and a cascading waterfall comprise the backdrop for this sauropod standing in a pool of water with surrounding lush vegetation.
APATOSAURUS Apatosaurus used to be called "Brontosaurus," which meant "thunder lizard" and referred to the loud noise this enormous dinosaur must have made as its 33-ton body lumbered across the plains of North America.
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 Apatosaurus | Brontosaurus | Dinosaur | Facts | Fossil | Contorversy | Fake | Mistake   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The man who 'found' the Brontosaurus came across the body of an Apatosaurus, except the head was missing.
Apatosaurus - Will the Real Brontosaurus Please Stand Up Apatosaurus was one of the largest animals that ever lived.
Apatosaurus is known for its very long neck, which made it easier to eat greens from trees.
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 Generos de dinosaurios: Apatosaurus
Apatosaurus presenta 10 vértebras dorsales, con neurapófisis cuya altura se incrementa hasta hacerse máxima en la región sacra, dotada de 5 vértebras.
Apatosaurus era un dinosaurio fitófago que probablemente comía hojas y brotes tiernos, una condición que los ecólogos denominan "ramoneador".
Apatosaurus, como el resto de los saurópodos, era un ramoneador capaz de alcanzar las más altas copas de los árboles.
www.dinosaurios.net /gdm/dmgn_apat.htm   (268 words)

  
 Apatosaurus   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Apatosaurus means "deceptive reptile" or "deceptive lizard." An Apatosaurus used to be called Brontosaurus, which means "thunder reptile.'' The Apatosaurus was big and tall.
It looked like a giant lizard Apatosaurus was a plant eater, it was gray and it had four legs and a long neck.
It weighed forty tons and was about seventy feet long (that's as long as two big city busses, one behind the other.) Apatosaurus had a small head, though, and his brain was only as bug as a man's fist.
www2.lhric.org /pocantico/dinosaur/apatosaurus.htm   (149 words)

  
 There is no such thing as a Brontosaurus
The body used in the reconstruction was primarily that of an Apatosaurus (ah-PAT-oh-sawr-us).
Because the Apatosaurus was found first,it's name takes priority, and the name brontosaurus is not valid.
The name Apatosaurus means "Deceptive Lizard", though it is not because of the brontosaurus mix-up.
www.angelfire.com /mi/dinosaurs/brontosaurus.html   (438 words)

  
 apatosaurus
Apatosaurus (S) Scale 1:40 Length: Adult 18.9 inches Length: baby 7.5 inches
Apatosaurus (S) Length: Adult 8.75 inches Length: baby2 inches
Apatosaurus (S) Scale 1:40 Length: Adult 24 inches Length: baby 6.5 inches
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 Fossil Halls | American Museum of Natural History
Like the Tyrannosaurus rex, Apatosaurus (formerly called Brontosaurus) was disassembled in 1992 and remounted to reflect current ideas about how it looked and carried itself.
Because he believed that this animal was related to more primitive sauropods called camarasaurs, he had the skull made to look like that of a camarasaur.
To this day, no Apatosaurus has ever been found with its skull directly attached, but one skull has been found lying close to an Apatosaurus skeleton.
www.amnh.org /exhibitions/permanent/fossilhalls/vertebrate/specimens/apatosaurus.php   (283 words)

  
 Apatosaurus   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Apatosaurus is one of the best known of all dinosaurs but usually by its more popular name "Brontosaurus".
Its 20-foot-long neck supported a rather small head and its brain was about the size of a large apple.
Apatosaurus' 30-foot whip-like tail was probably its only means of self-defense.
www.ircs.upenn.edu /cogsci2000/apatosaurus.html   (104 words)

  
 The UnMuseum - Brontosaurus
Marsh estimated that the Apatosaurus, meaning "deceptive lizard", was fifty feet in length.
The question of the popular Brontosaurus name verses the technically-correct Apatosaurus name came to a head in 1989 when the U.S. Post Office decided to release a set of four stamps illustrating "dinosaurs." One in the series was a picture of a large sauropod labeled Brontosaurus.
No Apatosaurus skeleton has been found in an ancient body of water and its feet were not at all suited for walking through marshy and muddy ground.
www.unmuseum.org /dinobront.htm   (1441 words)

  
 Apatosaurus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Since the name Apatosaurus was published first, it takes priority as the valid name, although Brontosaurus continues to be used popularly.
It was herbivorous and dwelled on land, possibly in forests, using its long neck to feed from trees.
No satisfactory skull specimen has been discovered attached to an Apatosaurus, and for many years an incorrect Camarasaurus-like head was mounted on the famous skeleton on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
www.bartelby.com /65/ap/Apatosau.html   (276 words)

  
 Apatosaurus
Es wird es jetzt angenommen, dass der Apatosaurus die meiste seiner Zeit auf dem Land verbrachte.
Der Apatosaurus ist nicht mit einer Herde zusammen gewesen.
Der Schädel von Apatosaurus wurde erst 1975 gefunden.
www.fanas.ch /schule/dinosaurier/apatosaurus.html   (178 words)

  
 G150 Dinosaurs and Reptiles
It had large, powerful jaws with long, sharp, serrated teeth 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm) long.
apatosaurus - Apatosaurus (which used to be known as Brontosaurus) was one of the largest land animals that ever existed.
This afforded Apatosaurus protection from predators, since Allosaurus couldn't attach its head or neck, and probably had more sense than to attack its gigantic, clawed feet or whip-like tail.
www.calstatela.edu /faculty/acolvil/dino_reptile.html   (930 words)

  
 Why is ``Brontosaurus'' now called Apatosaurus?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I said that Riggs established that Apatosaurus and ``Brontosaurus'' were from the same genus.
But the two Marsh specimens are still considered to represent separate species: the older specimen is Apatosaurus ajax and the newer Apatosaurus (nee ``Brontosaurus'') excelsus.
Finally: for many years, Apatosaurus was believed to have a head similar to that of Camarasaurus - a mistake that was rectified in the 1970s with the discovery of a specimen with associated cranial remains closely resembling the head of Diplodocus.
www.miketaylor.org.uk /dino/faq/s-class/bronto   (393 words)

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