Brontosaurus
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| phylum | Chordata | Brontosaurus, meaning "thunder lizard" (from Greek, is a genus of gigantic quadruped sauropod dinosaurs. Although the type species, B. excelsus, had long been considered a species of the closely related Apatosaurus, more recent research has proposed that Brontosaurus is a genus separate from Apatosaurus that contains three species: B. excelsus, B. yahnahpin, and B. parvus. Brontosaurus had long, thin necks and small heads, adapted for a herbivorous lifestyle; a bulky, heavy torso; and long, whip-like tails. The various species lived during the Late Jurassic epoch in the Morrison Formation of North America, going extinct by the end of the Jurassic.
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| clade | Diapsida | |
| order | Saurischia | |
| suborder | Sauropodomorpha | |
| family | Diplodocidae | |
| genus | †Brontosaurus | |
| Temporal range | Late Jurassic |
