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23.8" Apatosaurus Dorsal Vertebra With Stand - Colorado
This is an massive, 23.8" tall dorsal vertebra of an Apatosaurus collected this past season from our partners private quarry near Dinosaur, Colorado. It measures 15.7" wide and stands 29" tall on its custom metal display stand. A very solid and heavy vert.
There is some significant restoration to the neural spine on the vertebrae as well as some repairs and crack fills.
Mounted Apatosaurus (specimen CM 3018), Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Apatosaurus is a genus of large sauropod dinosaurs in the diplodocid family. They could have reached lengths of 80-90 feet and lived approximately 150 million years ago, between the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Fossils have almost entirely been recovered from the Morrison Formation of Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Utah. The cervical vertebrae of Apatosaurus are less elongated and more heavily constructed than those of Diplodocus, another diplodocid found in the same formation. Leg bones are also much stockier despite their longer length, implying that Apatosaurus was a more robust animal than Diplodocus.
There is some significant restoration to the neural spine on the vertebrae as well as some repairs and crack fills.
Mounted Apatosaurus (specimen CM 3018), Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Apatosaurus is a genus of large sauropod dinosaurs in the diplodocid family. They could have reached lengths of 80-90 feet and lived approximately 150 million years ago, between the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Fossils have almost entirely been recovered from the Morrison Formation of Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Utah. The cervical vertebrae of Apatosaurus are less elongated and more heavily constructed than those of Diplodocus, another diplodocid found in the same formation. Leg bones are also much stockier despite their longer length, implying that Apatosaurus was a more robust animal than Diplodocus.
SPECIES
Apatosaurus sp.
LOCATION
Skull Creek, Dinosaur, CO
FORMATION
Morrison Formation
SIZE
23.8 tall, 15.7 wide, 0.2" deep, 29" tall on stand
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#113388
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