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15 - The femur of Apatosaurus alenquerensis Lapp.& Zby.


15 – The femur of Apatosaurus alenquerensis Lapp.& Zby.
alarmPublication date: 19 November, 2021

A vegetarian giant.

The length of this bone is 1.6m and this species measured more than 20m from head to the tail’s end.

It was a gigantic herbivorous dinosaur, which lived in herds about 150 million years ago (Upper Jurassic), in Lourinhã — Alenquer region. Our Museum has several other bones of this species, some of them are exhibited in this room.

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