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Camarasaurus lentus

Photo by Lynton Gardiner

Catalogue numbers: USNM 13786 (body) and USNM 15492 (tail)
Camarasaurus lentus
Dinosaur National Monument, Utah
Jurassic Period, about 150 million years ago

This specimen was obtained in an exchange with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and was put on exhibit in 1946. This mount is unusual in that the bones are fully articulated*, and are displayed as they were found. (Click for front view)

*Bones found arranged in the same order as when the animal was alive.

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