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Camarasauridae

Morosaurus MO-ro-SOR-us

Generic sauropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Morosaurus 18 m (59 ft) long
as long as 11 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic sauropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Morosaurus
Length
18 m (59 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (154.8–132.6 Mya)
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Camarasauridae

Morosaurus is a camarasauridae known from the Cretaceous period, of uncertain origin. Most of what’s published comes from a small number of specimens, and the fuller picture of how it lived is still being worked out.

What we know

  • Originally named by Marsh 1878.