AFR035 – Brontosaurus
The Brontosaurus in the genus Brontosaurus and sauropods of the phylum Chordata, clade Dinosauria, superfamily Diplodocoidea, and subfamily Apatosaurinae, is a sauropod that was existence in the earliest times. There were three species discovered of this dinosaur namely Brontosaurus excelsus, B. parvus, and B. yahnahpin. The first one to be discovered was the Brontosaurus genus by paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh in 1879. The paleontologist Elmer Riggs said that the Brontosaurus was the same as that of the genus Apatosaurus in 1903. This specimen is still there in the Great Hall of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History. The scientists Tschopp with his colleagues Roger Benson and Octávio Mateus detailed the findings of this dinosaur.
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