Camarasaurus
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Camarasaurus Rango fósil: Xurásico Superior | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Esqueleto montado no Museo do Xurásico de Asturias. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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''Camarasaurus supremus'' Cope, 1877a | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Camarasaurus era un xénero de dinosauro herbívoro cuadrúpede. Era o máis común dos saurópodos xigantes descubertos en América do Norte. Este fósil foi descuberto na formación Morrison de Colorado e Utah, e data do Xurásico Superior (dende o Kimmeridgian até o Tithonian), hai uns 155 a 145 millóns de anos. Os Camarasaurus presentaban unha distintiva forma cranial cun fociño romo e un cranio arqueado que era notablemente cadrado. Crese que podía viaxar en mandas, ou cando menos en grupos familiares.
O seu nome quere dicir "lagarto de cámara", referíndose ás cámaras ocas nas vértebras (do grego καμαρα/kamara que quere dicir "cámara abovedada", e σαυρος/sauros que quere dicir "lagarto").
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- Wings, Oliver; Sander, P. Martin (2007). "No gastric mill in sauropod dinosaurs: new evidence from analysis of gastrolith mass and function in ostriches" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274 (1610): 635–640. PMC 2197205. PMID 17254987. doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.3763. Arquivado dende o orixinal (PDF) o 13 de xullo de 2011. Consultado o 2009-07-24.