camarasaur

camarasaur: /kam"euhr euh sawr'/, n.

a plant-eating sauropod dinosaur of the genus Camarasaurus and closely related genera, having a small head, long neck, and short forelimbs, and reaching a length of 40 ft. (12.2 m); until 1981 the type specimen of Brontosaurus excelcus was wrongly reconstructed with a Camarasaurus skull.

[ < NL Camarasaurus (1877), irreg. < Gk kamára space enclosed by an arch, vault (cf. CHAMBER) + -saurus -SAUR]

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