Barosaurus was a herbivore. It lived in the Jurassic period and inhabited North America. Its fossils have been found in places such as Utah, South Dakota and Colorado.
Quick facts about Barosaurus:
- Existed from Upper Jurassic Epoch to Tithonian Age
- Lived in a terrestrial habitat
- Was a herbivore
- Reproduced by laying eggs
- Had a body mass of approximately 20039.5 kg
- Fossil femurs are approximately 1520 mm long and wide
- 19 different specimens have been found by paleontologists
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Barosaurus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- J. Ayer. 1999. The Howe Ranch Dinosaurs: 10 Years of Dinosaur Digging in Wyoming. Sauriermuseum, Aathal, Switzerland
- K. Carpenter and C. Miles. 1998. Skull of a Jurassic ankylosaur (Dinosauria). Nature 393:782-783
- C. A. Bjoraker and M. T. Naus. 1996. A summary of Morrison Formation (Jurassic: Kimmeridgian–Tithonian) geology and paleontology, with notice of a new dinosaur locality in the Bighorn Basin (USA). In C. E. Bowen, S. C. Kirkwood, & T. S. Miller (eds.), Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook, Forty-Seventh Annual Field Conference. Resources of the Bighorn Basin
