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Brontosaurus parvus
Taxonomy
Elosaurus parvus was named by Peterson and Gilmore (1902). Its type specimen is CM 566, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Carnegie Quarry E, Sheep Creek, which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian lacustrine horizon in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.
It was synonymized subjectively with Apatosaurus excelsus by McIntosh (1981), McIntosh (1990) and Carpenter and McIntosh (1994); it was recombined as Apatosaurus parvus by Upchurch et al. (2004) and Foster and Peterson (2016); it was recombined as Brontosaurus parvus by Tschopp et al. (2015), Tschopp et al. (2015), Silva Junior et al. (2017) and Moro et al. (2020).
It was synonymized subjectively with Apatosaurus excelsus by McIntosh (1981), McIntosh (1990) and Carpenter and McIntosh (1994); it was recombined as Apatosaurus parvus by Upchurch et al. (2004) and Foster and Peterson (2016); it was recombined as Brontosaurus parvus by Tschopp et al. (2015), Tschopp et al. (2015), Silva Junior et al. (2017) and Moro et al. (2020).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1902 | Elosaurus parvus Peterson and Gilmore p. 491 figs. 1-10 |
| 1916 | Elosaurus parvus Mook p. 139 |
| 1927 | Elosaurus parvus Huene p. 457 |
| 1930 | Elosaurus parvus Hay p. 193 |
| 1936 | Elosaurus parvus Gilmore p. 246 |
| 1939 | Elosaurus parvus Kuhn p. 86 |
| 1970 | Elosaurus parvus Steel p. 66 |
| 2004 | Apatosaurus parvus Upchurch et al. |
| 2015 | Brontosaurus parvus Tschopp et al. |
| 2015 | Brontosaurus parvus Tschopp et al. p. 2 |
| 2016 | Apatosaurus parvus Foster and Peterson p. 435 |
| 2017 | Brontosaurus parvus Silva Junior et al. p. 21 |
| 2020 | Brontosaurus parvus Moro et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Brontosaurus parvus Peterson and Gilmore 1902
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Reference: Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to the top of the Tithonian or 155.70000 to 145.00000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | USA (Wyoming) | Elosaurus parvus, Brontosaurus sp. (type locality: 52816) | |
| Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | USA (Utah) | Brontosaurus parvus (58516) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | USA (Oklahoma) | Apatosaurus parvus (49338) |