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Huge Apatosaurus Caudal Vertebra With Chevron - Wyoming
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This is a massive caudal vertebra of an Apatosaurus from the Morrison Formation in Bighorn County, Wyoming. It measures 21.5" tall (35.3" tall if you include the chevron) and 37.4" tall on its custom metal display stand. It really makes you think about how gigantic this animal was. This vertebra is from just behind the pelvis of the animal.
There is some compression to the vertebra as well as a number of crack repairs with gap fill restoration on the processes. There is also some restoration of surface erosion, particularly on the neural spine.
Comes with the pictured custom display stand.
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.
This is a massive caudal vertebra of an Apatosaurus from the Morrison Formation in Bighorn County, Wyoming. It measures 21.5" tall (35.3" tall if you include the chevron) and 37.4" tall on its custom metal display stand. It really makes you think about how gigantic this animal was. This vertebra is from just behind the pelvis of the animal.
There is some compression to the vertebra as well as a number of crack repairs with gap fill restoration on the processes. There is also some restoration of surface erosion, particularly on the neural spine.
Comes with the pictured custom display stand.
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
Bighorn County, Wyoming
FORMATION
Morrison Formation
SIZE
Vertebra 21.5" tall, 35.3" with chevron
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#113410
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