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Dinosaurs C

CATHETOSAURUS lewisi
   
DESCRIBER Jensen,1988
TIME Jurassic Late
CLASSIFICATION Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Camarasauridae Camarasaurinae 
DIET Herbivore
FOSSILSITE Uncompahgre Upwarp. Colorado Plateau, Morrison Formation, Colorado, US
FALL UNDER CAMARASAURUS
LENGTH
INFO Camarasaurus = Caulodon (diversidens / leptoganus) (Cope,1877) Morosaurus (Marsh,1878) Uintasaurus (Holland,1919) Camarasaurus > Camarasaurus supremus (Cope,1877) >> C.leptodirus (Cope,1879) Amphicoelias latus (Cope,1877) Caulodon diversidens (Cope,1877) Caulodon leptoganus (Cope,1878) Camarasaurus > C. grandis (Marsh,1877) = Apatosaurus grandis (Marsh,1877) >> Morosaurus impar (Marsh,1878) Morosaurus robustus (Marsh,1878) Pleurocoelus montanus (Marsh,1896) Camarasaurus > C.lentus (Marsh,1889) = Morosaurus lentus (Marsh,1889) >> Camarsaurus annae (Ellinger,1950) Uintasaurus douglassi (Holland,1919) Camarasaurus > C. alenquerensis (Lapparent & Zbyszewski,1957) = Apatosaurus alenquerensis (Lapparent & Zbyszewski,1957) Camarasaurus lewisi (Jensen,1988) = Cathetosaurus lewisi (Jensen,1988)

"upright lizard"   Named for the construction of the pelvis, which supposedly indicated a sauropod that could rear on its hind legs to feed. Resembles Camarasaurus but differs from all other known sauropods in having bifurcated neural spines on its presacral vertebrae from the third cervical to the posterrormost dorsal.  

The skeleton is missing only the skull, the hind limbs, the left forelimb, and the rear portion of the tail. It displays an unusually inclined pelvis, unlike that of most other sauropods, that Jensen says support his bipedality hypothesis.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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