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Camarasaurus ( ) 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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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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