Noun
A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull. Robert T. Bakker
After constructing a raft in order to cross a swamp, a Brontosaurus capsizes their supplies, killing several of the men. Source: Internet
Bakker made A. yahnahpin the type species of a new genus, Eobrontosaurus in 1998, and Tschopp reclassified it as Brontosaurus yahnahpin in 2015. Source: Internet
Elmer Riggs reclassified Brontosaurus as a synonym of Apatosaurus in 1903, transferring the species B. excelsus to A. excelsus. Source: Internet
In 2015, Tschopp, Mateus, and Benson argued that the species was distinct enough to be placed in its own genus so they reclassified it back into Brontosaurus. Source: Internet
Infographic explaining the history of Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus according to Tschopp et al. 2015 Almost all modern paleontologists agreed with Riggs that the two dinosaurs should be classified together in a single genus. Source: Internet