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Camarasaurus
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You can see this dinosaur in the Museum.
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Camarasaurus used rows of close-set teeth to strip the leaves from trees and shrubs. Food was ground by stones in the stomach.
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Fact file
- Pronounced
- KAM-ar-a-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- chambered lizard
- Length
- 23m
- Height
- 9m
- Weight
- 20000kg
- Teeth
- chisel-like, sharp, snipping teeth
- Diet
- herbivorous
- Food
- tough plant material
- How it moved
- on 4 legs
- When it lived
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Late Jurassic
(150 - 140 million years ago) - Found in
- USA
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Macronaria, Camarasauromorpha, Camarasauridae, Camarasaurus
- Named by
- Cope (1877)
- Type species
- supremus
