APATOSAURUS        

 Anatomy:                                                                          

• Less-than- two- feet- long head

• Long skull

• Very tiny brain

• Long neck

• Long whip-like tail

• Hollow backbone

• Peg-like teeth in the front of the jaws

• Four massive and column-like legs

• Larger back legs

• On- the- top- of - head nostrils

• Blunt pencil-like teeth

 Size:                                                                                    

	size
Length		70-90 feet (21-27 m)
Height		15 feet (4.6 m)
weight		33-38 tons

 Meaning and pronunciation:                                        

	APATOSAURUS
Meaning		Deceptive Lizard
pronounced		ah-Pat-o-Saw-rus

 Diet:                                                                                  

	DIET
CARNIVORE
HERBIVORE		***
conifers, tree leaves and ferns

 Intelligence:                                                                    

intelligence
Very high
High
Mid	***
low
Very low

 Locomotion:                                                                     

	Biped	Quadruped
Running	***
Walking	***

 Period of life:                                                                    

ERA	PERIOD	EPOCH	MILLIONS YEARS  AGO
Mesozoic	CRETACEOUS	LATE	80-65

 Discovery of fossil:                                                          

Its fossils have been found in North America, including Montana, USA, and Alberta, Canada.

 Classification:                                                                   

	classification
FAMILY		Hadrosauridae
INFRAORDER		Iguanodontia
SUBORDER		Ornithopoda
ORDER		Ornithischia