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Apatosaurus
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You can see this dinosaur in the Museum.
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- Pronounced
- ah-PAT-oh-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- deceptive lizard
- Length
- 21m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Jurassic
(154 - 145 million years ago) - Found in
- USA
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Diplodocoidea, Diplodocidae, Apatosaurus
- Named by
- Marsh (1877)
- Type species
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