Apatosaurus
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| phylum | Chordata | Apatosaurus is a genus of extinct sauropod dinosaurs that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. Othniel Charles Marsh described and named the first-known species, A. ajax, in 1877, and a second species, A. louisae, was discovered and named by William H. Holland in 1916. Apatosaurus lived about 152 to 151 million years ago, during the early Tithonian age, and are now known from fossils in the Morrison Formation of modern-day Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Utah in the United States. Apatosaurus had an average length of 21–22.8 m (69–75 ft), and an average mass of 16.4–22.4 t (16.1–22.0 long tons; 18.1–24.7 short tons).
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| clade | Diapsida | |
| order | Saurischia | |
| suborder | Sauropodomorpha | |
| family | Diplodocidae | |
| genus | Apatosaurus | |
| species | A. ajax | |
| Temporal range | Late Jurassic |
