sentences:  A reduction to two carpals, long metacarpals relative to the radius, and a twisted ischial shaft serve to identify the appendicular skeleton.Broadly speaking, camarasaurids occupied a distribution limited to the Laurasian continent during the Upper Jurassic.Most currently accepted camarasaurid specimens have been discovered in the Morrison Formation of North America, however some specimens from the African Tendaguru Formation have been speculated to belong to the genus "Camarasaurus", and the closely related "Lourinhasaurus" was found in Portugal.