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What does the name APATOSAURAS mean?
Deceptive lizard. Brontosaurus is now called apatosaurus- 'deceptive lizard'- one of the largest land animals that ever lived.
The brontosaurus is no longer a real dinosaur but.... why?
The brontosaurus is now called "apatosaurus". The first name given to it was apatosaurus (in 1877), but when bones were later found of the same species by another person, he called it brontosaurus (in 1879). The first name takes precedence.
Why was aptosaurus used to be called brontosaurus?
Othniel Charles Marsh discovered a species of Apatosaurus in 1877, and he named it Apatosaurus ajax. Two years later, he discovered another species of Apatosaurus. Marsh didn't realize that they both belonged to the same genus, though, so he named the new species Brontosaurus excelsus. When it was determined that Brontosaurus excelsus was actually a species of Apatosaurus, its name was changed to Apatosaurus excelsus.
What is the other name for apatosaurus?
brontosaurus
What does Apatosaurus men?
Apatosaurus means "deceptive lizard." When Othniel Charles Marsh discovered Apatosaurus vertebrae, he almost thought they were mosasaur bones, hence the name.
The families name of the apatosaurus?
Apatosaurus belonged to the subfamily Apatosaurinae. The subfamily Apatosaurinae belonged to the family Diplodocidae.
What species is an apatosaurus?
There are four accepted species of Apatosaurus. They are Apatosaurus ajax, Apatosaurus excelsus, Apatosaurus louisae, and Apatosaurus parvus.
What is another name for the tyrannosaurus?
It's a synonym for the genus Apatosaurus. There are rules for the naming of all organisms and they boil down to a first-come-first-served proviso. The fossils of this particular animal, when first found, were incomplete, but enough was available to establish the existence of a new dinosaur, and it was named Apatosaurus ajax. A few years later a much more complete fossil skeleton was found and, not realizing it was similar to the earlier find was named Brontosaurus excelsus. It was later decided that both animals were quite similar, and probably belonged to the same genus. Since the name Apatosaurus was published first, Brontosaurus was dropped and is, by convention, no longer used.
What is the present name of a genus of sauropod previously known as brontosaurus that lived during the Jurassic period?
Brontosaurus is now called Apatosaurus excelsus. Apatosaurus excelsus is one of the four species in the genus Apatosaurus.
Why was the brontosaurus special?
A dinosaur named the Apatosaurus was discovered, documented, and named. Afterwards, another dinosaur was found, documented, and named the Brontosaurus. Years later, it was reaalized that the Brontosaurus was really an Apatosaurus, and it is not another genus.
What dinosaur named the apatosaurus is a herbivore?
The apatosaurus is the apatosaurus which is an herbivore.
Where did the brontosaurus get its food from?
Brontosaurus is an invalid name for Apatosaurus excelsus. Apatosaurus was an herbivorous dinosaur, so it got its food by searching for edible plants.
