Bone Wars
The first record of "Camarasaurus" comes from 1877, when a few scattered vertebrae were located in Colorado, by Oramel W. Lucas. Pursuing his long-running and acrimonious competition (known as the Bone Wars) with Othniel Charles Marsh, the paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope paid for the bones, and moving quickly, named them in the same year. For his part, Marsh later named some of his sauropod findings "Morosaurus grandis", but most paleontologists today consider them to be a species of "Camarasaurus". Such naming conflicts were common between the two rival dinosaur hunters.