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=== Resurgent discoveries === [[File:Cathetosaurus skeleton 1.jpg|thumb|273x273px|Mounted skeleton of ''Camarasaurus'' sp. SMA 0002 at the [[Aathal Dinosaur Museum|Sauriermuseum Aathal]].]] No major discoveries would come for ''Camarasaurus'' until in 1967, [[James A. Jensen|James Jensen]] collected a well preserved and articulated partial postcranial skeleton, including majority of the vertebral column, at [[Dry Mesa Quarry|Uncompahgre Hill]] in western [[Colorado]]<ref name=":10">McIntosh, J.S., Miller, W.E., Stadtman, K.L., and Gillette, D.D., 1996b, [https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70017760 The osteology of Camarasaurus lewisi (Jensen, 1988)]: Brigham Young University Geology Studies, v. 41, p. 73-115.</ref><ref name=":13">Jensen, J. A. (1988). "A fourth new sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of the Colorado Plateau and sauropod bipedalism". ''Great Basin Naturalist''. '''48''' (2): 121β145.</ref> and was deposited at [[Brigham Young University]] under specimen number BYU 9740.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web |last=Ford |first=Tracy |title=Camarasaurus Paleofile |url=http://www.paleofile.com/Dinosaurs/Sauropoda/Camarasaurus.asp |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126114747/http://www.paleofile.com:80/Dinosaurs/Sauropoda/Camarasaurus.asp |archive-date=January 26, 2020}}</ref><ref name=":10" /> The skeleton wasn't full prepared until years later,<ref name=":10" /> and was described in 1988 as a new genus and species of [[Camarasauridae|Camarasaurid]], ''[[Cathetosaurus]] lewisi''.<ref name=":13" /> ''C. lewisi''{{'}}s original description was brief, but later in 1996 the skeleton was given a full osteology and placed as a species of ''Camarasaurus'' by John McIntosh and colleagues. In their paper, they determined that ''C. supremus, C. grandis, C. lentus,'' and ''C. lewisi'' were valid.<ref name=":10" /> In 2013, Octavio Mateus and Emanuel Tschopp argued that ''C. lewisi'' was actually its own genus based on a specimen found at Howe Quarry in 1992<ref name=":4" /> that they referred to the species.<ref name=":14">Mateus, O., & Tschopp E. (2013). [https://docentes.fct.unl.pt/sites/default/files/omateus/files/mateus__tschopp_2013_cathetosaurs_camarasaurus__svp_meeting_abstracts_213.pdf ''Cathetosaurus'' as a valid sauropod genus and comparisons with ''Camarasaurus''.] Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2013. 173.</ref> Further research by Tschopp concluded that the Howe Quarry specimen was most likely to represent ''Camarasaurus'' after all.<ref name="tschopp2016"/> As of 2019, most researchers considered ''C. lewisi'' to be a species of ''Camarasaurus''.<ref name="tschopp2019"/> In 1992, another substantial and articulated skeleton of ''Camarasaurus'' was collected, this skeleton by Jeffrie Parker and colleagues near the AMNH's [[Bone Cabin Quarry]] at Como Bluff.{{sfn|McIntosh|Miles|Cloward|Parker|1996|pp=1β5}} This skeleton was referred to ''Camarasaurus grandis''{{sfn|McIntosh|Miles|Cloward|Parker|1996|p=30}} and is one of the most complete specimens assigned to the species, it now resides at the [[Gunma Museum of Natural History]] in Tokyo under specimen number GMNH-PV 101.{{sfn|McIntosh|Miles|Cloward|Parker|1996|p=6}}<ref name="ikejiri2005" /> 1992 saw yet another ''Camarasaurus'' skeleton discovery further north at [[Howe Quarry]], Wyoming by crews working for the [[Aathal Dinosaur Museum|Sauriermuseum Aathal]] in Switzerland. The skeleton is one of the best known, with nearly every element articulated and skin impressions from the skull and hindlimb.<ref>Tschopp, E. D., Oliver, W., Thomas, F., & Winand, B. (2015). Articulated bone sets of manus and pedes of Camarasaurus (Sauropoda, Dinosauria).</ref><ref name=":4" /> The specimen, SMA 002, has not yet gotten a full identification, but has been suggested to be a specimen of ''C. lewisi''.<ref name=":4" /> In 1996, several fragmentary remains of ''Camarasaurus'' were described from western [[South Dakota]]<ref>Foster, J. R. (1996). [https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/uwyo/rmg/article-pdf/31/1/1/2953270/1.pdf Sauropod dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Black Hills, South Dakota and Wyoming.] ''Rocky Mountain Geology'', ''31''(1), 1-25.</ref> and [[New Mexico]],<ref name=":17">LUCAS, S. G., & HECKERT, A. B. (1993). [https://books.google.com/books?id=gV8fCgAAQBAJ&dq=new+mexico+jurassic+dinosaurs&pg=PA43 Jurassic dinosaurs in New Mexico.] ''Dinosaurs of New Mexico: Bulletin 17'', ''17'', 43.</ref> extending the northeastern and southern range of the genus, with the New Mexican remains from the [[Summerville Formation]].<ref name=":17"/> The northernmost specimen of ''Camarasaurus'' was discovered in 2005 in the Snowy Mountains region of central Montana and consists of a nearly complete skull and several postcranial elements.{{sfn|Woodruff|Foster|2017}}
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