9949 Brontosaurus
This minor planet was named after Brontosaurus, a gigantic quadruped sauropod dinosaurs, which walked on all four legs and lived in the Upper Jurassic. Adult individuals measured up to 20 meters and had a weight of up to 20 tons. Many Fossils have been found in the United States. Brontosaurus is one of the best-known dinosaurs. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 November 2002 ().
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
The "Jurassic Super Giants" exhibit features the complete skeletons of "Seismosaurus", "Saurophaganax", "Stegosaurus", and one leg of a "Brachiosaurus". In the museum's atrium is the skeleton of , a "Tyrannosaurus rex" measuring forty feet (≈12.2 meters) in length and twelve feet (≈3.7 meters) in height, the second largest "T. rex" ever found.