Camarasaurus

You all know sauropods.

Sauropods are like Brachiosaurus, Al- uh, Diplodocus, uh, Apatosaurus, Camarasaurus, Mamenchisaurus, uh, Myfeetersaurus.

My feet are sore? Oh, yeah, my shoes don't fit.

[laughs] Get it? Myfeetersaurus.

Am I right in thinking that you probably wouldn't be able to get the whole skeleton?

What's really cool about Dinosaur National Monument, they've actually got some of the most complete skeletons of these massive long-necked dinosaurs, like Camarasaurus.

It's like they have a whole skeleton.

They've got baby stegosaur as well.

Obviously, we have to take some liberty artistic license with the coloring and things like that.

But the Camarasauruses, which are the herbivores in the movie, they had fur.

And I think it threw some people because it almost looks like a woolly mammoth rubbing against the window.

But the Camarasaurus was known to be furry.

... sauropod fossils.

Ceratocadia is the earliest macronarian from India and one of the earliest in the world, so you can think Camarasaurus.

This is another early diverging macronarian.

They did histology on several bones, including the left femur, right ulna, left metacarpal, which is a hand or a foot bone, depending on which way you wanna look at it on a sauropod.

Something that can happen in older age in dinosaurs and people.

Mm-hmm.

Again, it's a non-titanosaur form macronarian like Camarasaurus, and they actually used a silhouette of Camarasaurus for their schematics showing the bones that they found, and they did that cool retro deformation of the bones digitally to take the ones that got squished in the fossilization process and restore them to their former glory.

Nice.

I believe they absolutely would have.

For instance, Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Barosaurus, and Camarasaurus all lived in the same location at the same time.

But what I think they would do, Divot, is I believe they would probably become specialized eaters.

And what I mean by that is they all wouldn't be eating the identical food, because then they would compete with each other too much, and I don't think that they would be able to survive.

Like Brachiosaurus is not gonna eat things close to the ground.

It's body is not made to bend over and reach down there.

But Camarasaurus is not gonna reach very high compared to Brachiosaurus 'cause they're, it's half the height.

So I think that they would've been more specialized in what they ate so that they could all live next to each other without directly competing with one another.

It's a baby dinosaur.

It looks like The Land Before Time, and it's like a baby Camarasaurus, and it mimics lifelike behavior really well and emotions and stuff.

And so it has a tilt sensor, so if you hold it up by the tail, it'll start crying, um, and s- and like squirming.

And I thought this was really interesting and was showing it to my friends, and like they would...

Starting off, Marsh discovered Allosaurus, Ankyosaurus, Apatosaurus, Barrosaurus, Brontosaurus, Camptosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Diplodocus, Dryosaurus, Dryptosaurus, Nanosaurus, Ornithomimus, Stegosaurus, Taurosaurus, and Triceratops.

Whereas Cope discovered Camarasaurus, Coelophysis, Drinker, Epantereus and Monoclonius.

These were just some of the famous dinosaurs that these two men discovered during this period.

Although dinosaurs dominated the headlines of their discoveries, both men had found far more than just the dinosaurs alone.

Judged by pure numbers, though, Marsh won the Bone Wars.

Both scientists made finds of immense discovery and scientific value, but while Cope discovered a total of 56 new dinosaur species, Marsh discovered 80.

Although many of these names were later revised or synonymised, a substantial number remain valid today, including iconic genera of dinosaurs such as Stegosaurus, Diplodocus, Allosaurus, Triceratops and Camarasaurus.

In the later stages of the Bone Wars, Marsh simply had more men and more money at his disposal than Cope, and Cope also had a much broader set of paleontological interests, whilst Marsh almost exclusively pursued fossil reptiles.

So I have a list here from Dinopedia, um, and it was brought up 'cause, like, uh, this is what ap- is confirmed in the movie.

So Allosaurus, Coelophysis, Spinosaurus, Stegosaurus, Garjania, uh, Camarasaurus, Pterodactylus, Ankylosaurus, Scipionyx, Tropeognathus, uh, Megalochelys, and then Titanoboa.

And then I have another one, um, that's-- this is-- I just put it in and said, "What are the dinosaurs there?" So this is just a different list, but still very same.

Um, you see Megalochelys is a giant turtle.

So Coelophysis and, and, uh, Garjania wouldn't have seen each other.

It was described in 1958 by Soviet paleontologists Vitaly Georg- Georgaich Ochev, um, and based on fossils found in Orenberg Oblast, Russia.

Then we have Camarasaurus, which is one of the very-- I love sauropods as much as, like, you know, they're kinda just, they're big dinosaurs, but it's so cool.

So it lived during the Jurassic, 155 to 143 million years ago.

Well, there's no such thing as a Brontosaurus.

What the Brontosaurus was was an Apatosaurus body with a Camarasaurus head, and the, th- sort of the irony was that for years many paleontologists sort of, "Eh, that's not right.

That's not right." Um, but because it was Marsh, [laughs] they said, "All right, I'm, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna take that on." It, it took almost 60 years before everybody owned up, "Yeah, yeah, there's no such thing as a Brontosaurus."

I've heard this before, but I think there's probably a bunch of people who don't know the Brontosaurus never actually existed.