
کاماراسورس
Sign in to saveCamarasaurus ( ) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic in what is now the United States. Its fossils are primarily known from the Morrison Formation dating to the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian ages of the Jurassic, between 155 and 145 million years ago (mya). It was named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1877; it definitively contains three species, C. supremus, the type species, C. grandis, and C. lentus, while some researchers consider C. lewisi to be in its own genus, Cathetosaurus. The generic name means "chambered lizard", referring to the hollow chambers, known as ple
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- Image
- MUJA-Sauropod.JPG
- Length
- 23.0
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- Commons category
- Camarasaurus
- taxon name
- Camarasaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
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- Camarasaurus
- taxon common name
- Camarasaurus ("chambered lizard")
- start time
- 155000000-
- end time
- 145000000-
- time period
- Late Jurassic
- location of discovery
- United States
- main food source
- herbivore
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