Eobrontosaurus

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Eobrontosaurus Fossil range: Late Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Saurischia Suborder: Sauropodomorpha Infraorder: Sauropoda Family: Diplodocidae Genus: Eobrontosaurus Bakker, 1998
Binomial name
Eobrontosaurus yahnahpin (Filla & Redman, 1994)
Synonyms
Apatosaurus yahnahpin Filla & Redman, 1994

Eobrontosaurus ("dawn thunder lizard") is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America. It was a sauropod closely related to Apatosaurus.

The type species, E. yahnahpin, was described by Filla and Redman (1994) as a species of Apatosaurus ("A. yahnahpin"), but re-evaluation by Bakker in 1998 found it to be more primitive, and so Bakker coined the new generic name Eobrontosaurus.

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