Barosaurus

Discovery

Barosaurus is one of the many sauropods discovered in North America during the "Wild West Dinosaur Hunts" (the "Bone Wars") of the late 19th century. Othniel Charles Marsh named it in 1890. The name is also applied to specimens once classified in the genus Tornieria.

Related Topics:
Sauropod - North America - Bone Wars - 19th century - Othniel Charles Marsh - 1890 - Genus

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Starting in 1922, three fairly complete Barosaurus skeletons were dug out of Carnegie Quarry, Utah, by a team lead by Earl Douglas of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Earlier, he had excavated Apatosaurus from the same site, and had been involved in setting up the Dinosaur National Monument there in 1915.

Related Topics:
1922 - Utah - Earl Douglas - Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Apatosaurus - Dinosaur National Monument - 1915

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More Barosaurus remains were uncovered in South Dakota and, more recently, pieces of skull, limbs and other fragments of a specimen from Tanzania in East Africa have also been assigned to Barosaurus.

Related Topics:
South Dakota - Skull - Tanzania

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