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Brontosaurus parvus

Reptilia

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).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1902Elosaurus parvus Peterson and Gilmore p. 491
1916Elosaurus parvus Mook p. 139
1927Elosaurus parvus Huene p. 457
1930Elosaurus parvus Hay p. 193
1936Elosaurus parvus Gilmore p. 246
1939Elosaurus parvus Kuhn p. 86
1970Elosaurus parvus Steel p. 66
2004Apatosaurus parvus Upchurch et al.
2015Brontosaurus parvus Tschopp et al.
2015Brontosaurus parvus Tschopp et al. p. 2
2016Apatosaurus parvus Foster and Peterson p. 435
2017Brontosaurus parvus Silva Junior et al. p. 21
2020Brontosaurus parvus Moro et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Saurischia()
Sauropoda()
Gravisauria
Eusauropoda
Neosauropoda
Diplodocoidea()
Diplodocimorpha
Flagellicaudata
Diplodocidae()
subfamilyApatosaurinae
genusBrontosaurus
speciesparvus()

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
Composition: hydroxyapatiteinfrao
Entire body: yesinfrao
Adult length: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult width: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult height: 10 to < 100infrao
Thickness: thickinfrao
Architecture: compact or denseinfrao
Form: sphericalinfrao
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partsinfrao
Grouping: gregariousinfrao
Environment: terrestrialinfrao
Locomotion: actively mobileinfrao
Life habit: ground dwellinginfrao
Diet: herbivoreinfrao
Reproduction: oviparousinfrao
Dispersal: direct/internalinfrao
Dispersal 2: mobileinfrao
Created: 2004-12-14 12:49:10
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:49:10
Source: infrao = infraorder
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
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0USA (Utah) Brontosaurus parvus (58516)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0USA (Wyoming) Elosaurus parvus, Brontosaurus sp. (type locality: 52816)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Tithonian155.7 - 145.0USA (Oklahoma) Apatosaurus parvus (49338)