camarasaurus

Noun

Meaning

A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae.

Examples

After Holland's death in 1934, museum staff placed a cast of a Camarasaurus skull on the mount. Source: Internet

Apatosaurus is commonly found at the same sites as Allosaurus, Camarasaurus, Diplodocus, and Stegosaurus. Source: Internet

Henry Fairfield Osborn disagreed with this association, and went on to mount a skeleton of Apatosaurus with a Camarasaurus skull cast. Source: Internet

Ischium of an Apatosaurus showing bite marks from a large theropod Apatosaurus was the second-commonest sauropod in the Morrison Formation ecosystem, after Camarasaurus. Source: Internet

The arm bones are stout, so the humerus of Apatosaurus resembles that of Camarasaurus, as well as Brontosaurus. Source: Internet

The skull of Apatosaurus was confused with that of Camarasaurus and Brachiosaurus until 1909, when the holotype of A. louisae was found, and a complete skull just a few meters away from the front of the neck. Source: Internet

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