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Bite Sci-zed - Apatosaurus vs. Brontosaurus

Sources:

Notice of New Dinosaurian Reptiles from the Jurassic Formation
http://marsh.dinodb.com/marsh/Marsh%201877%20-%20Notice%20of%20new%20dinosaurian%20reptiles%20from%20the%20Jurassic%20formation.pdf

Marsh Describes the Brontosaurus:
http://marsh.dinodb.com/marsh/Marsh%201879%20-%20Notice%20of%20new%20Jurassic%20reptiles.pdf

Elmer Riggs Clarification:
http://j.mp/161UPm9

Wrong Head:
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/22/science/science-watch-a-dinosaur-and-its-head.html

General:
http://www.unmuseum.org/dinobront.htm
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/371/is-it-true-the-brontosaurus-never-really-existed
http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/faq/s-class/bronto/

Images:

Riggs Bone Comparison:
http://j.mp/XCvWsO

USGS Illustration:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brontosaurus_skeleton_1880s.jpg

O.C.Marsh:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/brh2003001441/PP/

Elmer Riggs:
http://j.mp/YIpo90

E.D. Cope:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cope_Edward_Drinker_1840-1897.png

Brontosaurus Mount:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sharp_lull_brontosaurus.jpg

by Alex Dainis.
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