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What was a brontasaurus?

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Brontosaurus is a species of a large giant-sized reptile, an extinct reptilian herbivore (plant-eating) animal from the Jurassic period. Bronto comes from the Greek word meaning thunder and saurus meaning lizard.

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Brontosaurus was one of the first sauropods, or quadrupedal, lizard hipped, long necked, herbivorous dinosaurs to be discovered. Because they were so large, they quickly became iconic, even though we now know of many different types of sauropods. Note that Brontosaurus is now a dubious name, and it should actually be called Apatosaurus.

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The most interesting fact is that there was no such creature. The skeleton that was long displayed at the Peabody Museum (and from which the famous "LIFE" panorama was created) was a sort of "Piltdown Dinosaur" consisting of the body of an Apatosaurus and the head of a Camarasaurus. Eventually the matter got straightened out (the "discoverer," O.C. Marsh, probably didn't mean to hoax anybody, but he was in the early days of Paleontology and people weren't all that careful about provenance).

Since the Apatosaurus was most of the skeleton, some books refer to "Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus)" as though they were the same thing, but "Bronty" was really sort of a made-up critter, like a centaur or a mermaid.

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Brontosaurus is actually an invalid name for Apatosaurus excelsus. Apatosaurus excelsus was a sauropod, or lizard hipped, quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaur with a long neck. Apatosaurus excelsus was 75 feet long and weighed between 18 and 25 tons.

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It means thunder lizard because their walking sounds like thunder

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'Brontosaurus' means 'Thunder Lizard' in Latin. Later, when it was found to have a much smaller head than first thought, it was renamed the 'Apatosaurus', or 'deceptive lizard'.

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Brontosaurus is an invalid name for Apatosaurus excelsus. Apatosaurus was a sauropod dinosaur, or a lizard hipped, herbivorous, quadruped with a long neck.

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Thunder lizard

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a dinosour

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