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This Brontosaurus, 6" figure includes hand painted features to give it realistic details that are true to natural anatomy. This figure is considered a high quality replica. Highest Quality Natural Rubber.
Brontosaurus, (genus Brontosaurus), genus of large herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs living during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous epochs (163.5 million to 100.5 million years ago). Its fossil was first discovered in western North America in 1874 and first described in 1879 by American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh. In 1903, however, the genus Brontosaurus, which means “thunder lizard” in Greek, was subsumed by the earlier-described genus Apatosaurus. Despite the change in classification, the public still embraced the dinosaur as Brontosaurus, owing to the widespread use of its likeness during much of the 20th century in advertising, motion pictures, and television, as well as the presence of Brontosaurus reconstructions in museums throughout North America and Europe. The genus Brontosaurus was reinstated in 2015 after a morphological study of the family to which those genera belonged revealed that the physical differences between Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus were enough to separate them into two genera. The genus Brontosaurus contains only one species, Interest in restoring Brontosaurus as a valid genus has remained since Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus were merged into one. Years before the publication of the paper by Tschopp and colleagues, some paleontologists argued that the differences between were great enough to force a reclassification of the latter species. Beginning in the 1990s, noted American paleontologist Robert Bakker argued that position, along with a subsequent name change. However, it was not until the 2015 paper by Tschopp and colleagues that the reinstatement of Brontosaurus became a viable possibility. They concluded that the differences between Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus were numerous enough to reinstate the latter as a valid genus.
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