A Guide to the Dinosaurs of Colorado
On Dinosaur Classification
On Scientific Names
The Basics of Taxonomy
An Introduction to Cladistcs
Taxonomy of the Dinosaurs of Colorado
Cladogram of the Dinosaurs of Colorado
About the Dinosaurs of Colorado
Geological
Time Chart
    

Genus Barosaurus

Taxonomy: Recognized Species
Class Dinosauria
  Subclass Sauropodomorpha
    Order Sauropoda
      Suborder Diplodocimorpha
        Family Diplodocidae
B. lentus Marsh, 1878
  South Dakota, Utah.
B. africanus Fraas, 1908
  Mtwara, Tanzania.
B. gracilis Janensch, 1961
  Mtwara, Tanzania.
Species in Colorado: Barosaurus lentus
(Found at Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, just west of Colorado line.)
Size: Where found:
Not available at this time.
 Morrison Formation of Utah and South Dakota
Period: Age:
Late Jurassic Kimmeridgian - Tithonian
  144 to 156 Ma.
Material Found
B. lentus
Five partial skeletons without skulls, limb elements.
B. africanus
At least four partial skeletons, a few skull elements, some postcranial pieces.
B. gracilis
Limb elements.

Information compiled by Donald L. Blanchard

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