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Description
Camarasaurus supremus
Named by Edward Drinker Cope, 1877
Diet: Herbivore (High-Browser)
Type: Sauropodomorph sauropod (Macronarian) dinosaur
Size: 75 feet (23 meters) long and 51.8 tons
Region: North America (Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, USA)
Age: Late Jurassic (150.1 to 146.8 million BC; Tithonian)
Enemies: Saurophaganax maximus and Epanterias (or Allosaurus) amplexus (They'll mainly target a young or sick camarasaur, as the healthy adults are too large and dangerous for them to take down)
Episode: Walking with Dinosaurs: Inside Their World app
Original Version: vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/w…
Info: Meaning "Chambered Lizard", due to the chambers in its vertebrae to help reduce the animal's weight, Camarasaurus is characterized by having a deep, blunt-nosed head with a mouth full of fearsome-looking chisel-like teeth that are stronger than those of most other sauropods, suggesting that it could eat tougher vegetation than others, chewing it up rather than swallowing it whole. Known from a large number of preserved specimens (in the case of mainly one species, C. lentus), with evidence of herding behavior, Camarasaurus was one of the best-known sauropods of North America and the most common one of the famous Morrison Formation in the American Midwest during the Late Jurassic period.

Note: Based on Gregory S. Paul's skeletal work. Colouration, based on combination of both the original and the dinoraul's in witch it was used from.

Camarasaurus lentus is perhaps the best-known species, due to the large number of remains from youngsters to adults, being very common in the Morrison Formation, and the fact that its the typical, smaller sauropod in comparison to other giant sauropod species of the region, such as Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Brontosaurus, Barosaurus, Supersaurus, Amphicoelias, and the very uncommon Brachiosaurus. But I choose C. supremus, because of its importance, being the type species, and the fact that its one of the dinosaur species Edward Drinker Cope described in the 1870's during his rivalry with his arch-nemesis, Othniel Charles Marsh in the infamous Bone Wars. But at least I include C. lentus in the Big Al story!

That concludes the sauropods of the Jurassic period! This next dinosaur I'm making and adding is something we all know and love! Its also from the Morrison Formation and a herbivore, but, SPOILER ALERT, it not a sauropod!

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Description
Camarasaurus supremus
Named by Edward Drinker Cope, 1877
Diet: Herbivore (High-Browser)
Type: Sauropodomorph sauropod (Macronarian) dinosaur
Size: 75 feet (23 meters) long and 51.8 tons
Region: North America (Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, USA)
Age: Late Jurassic (150.1 to 146.8 million BC; Tithonian)
Enemies: Saurophaganax maximus and Epanterias (or Allosaurus) amplexus (They'll mainly target a young or sick camarasaur, as the healthy adults are too large and dangerous for them to take down)
Episode: Walking with Dinosaurs: Inside Their World app
Original Version: vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/w…
Info: Meaning "Chambered Lizard", due to the chambers in its vertebrae to help reduce the animal's weight, Camarasaurus is characterized by having a deep, blunt-nosed head with a mouth full of fearsome-looking chisel-like teeth that are stronger than those of most other sauropods, suggesting that it could eat tougher vegetation than others, chewing it up rather than swallowing it whole. Known from a large number of preserved specimens (in the case of mainly one species, C. lentus), with evidence of herding behavior, Camarasaurus was one of the best-known sauropods of North America and the most common one of the famous Morrison Formation in the American Midwest during the Late Jurassic period.

Note: Based on Gregory S. Paul's skeletal work. Colouration, based on combination of both the original and the dinoraul's in witch it was used from.

Camarasaurus lentus is perhaps the best-known species, due to the large number of remains from youngsters to adults, being very common in the Morrison Formation, and the fact that its the typical, smaller sauropod in comparison to other giant sauropod species of the region, such as Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Brontosaurus, Barosaurus, Supersaurus, Amphicoelias, and the very uncommon Brachiosaurus. But I choose C. supremus, because of its importance, being the type species, and the fact that its one of the dinosaur species Edward Drinker Cope described in the 1870's during his rivalry with his arch-nemesis, Othniel Charles Marsh in the infamous Bone Wars. But at least I include C. lentus in the Big Al story!

That concludes the sauropods of the Jurassic period! This next dinosaur I'm making and adding is something we all know and love! Its also from the Morrison Formation and a herbivore, but, SPOILER ALERT, it not a sauropod!

Requested by

Walking with Dinosaurs is owned by BBC and Impossible Pictures