- colleagues,
there are six
valid species of
apatosaurine;
three in
Brontosaurus and two in Apatosaurus.
Apatosaurines were
nonselective low-browsers, utilizing...
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itself to lie at the base of the
diplodocid family tree, and
other "
apatosaurines",
including Supersaurus, to be
progressively more
closely related to...
- diplodocids, as in Apatosaurus. On the
lateral sides of the cervicals,
apatosaurines had well-developed and
thick parapophyses (extensions on the lateral...
- the
bones of the
holotype skeleton were
mixed with
those of
another Apatosaurine individual originally described as
Atlantosaurus immanis; as a consequence...
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Brontosaurus or an Apatosaurus, and
therefore it is
considered an "unidentified
apatosaurine", as it
could also
potentially be its own
genus and species. Brontops:...
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member of the
genus Apatosaurus, and
propose that rib
pneumaticity among apatosaurines is
individually variable.
Windholz et al. (2024)
describe a new rebbachisaurid...
- and
Diplodocus have
slenderer builds and
longer necks and
tails than
apatosaurines, the
other subfamily of diplodocids.
Below is a
cladogram of Diplodocinae...
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postcranial skeleton and
posterior skull.
Robust and
abundantly widespread apatosaurine diplodocids reaching lengths of up to 25 m (82 ft). "A."
minimus likely...
- Amphicoelias, as the
basalmost genus within Apatosaurinae, and as an
apatosaurine nested between Brontosaurus excelsus and
Brontosaurus yahnahpin. There...
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Formation include Diplodocus, Barosaurus,
Supersaurus and Galeamopus.
Apatosaurines include Apatosaurus—one of the most
abundant Morrison sauropods—and...
