English name: Heavy reptile
Flesh-eater or vegetarian: Vegetarian
Living period: (155 – 145 million years ago) It lived in the late Jurassic.
Finding places: Tanzania: Mtwara. USA: South Dakota and Utah.
Found by: In 1890 Othniel Marsh discovered and named the Barosaurus. In 1912 Earl Douglass found three almost complete Barosaurs’ in the Carnegie-excavation in Utah. A century after some skull, jaws and legs were found in Tanzania, which were related to the Barosaurus.
Food: Leaves from trees and ferns
Length: 25 m. (75 ft.)
Weight: 20 t. (40,000 lbs.)
Classification:
Family Diplodocidae
Infraorder Sauropoda
Underorder Sauropodamorpha
Order Saurischia