Cetiosaurus
genus of sauropod dinosaur
Cetiosaurus is a sauropod dinosaur whose remains were found in Oxfordshire. It was a herbivore.[1][2]
| Cetiosaurus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic 167 mya
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| Mounted skeleton, New Walk Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Family: | †Cetiosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Cetiosaurinae Lydekker, 1888 |
| Genus: | †Cetiosaurus Owen, 1841 |
| Species: | †C. oxoniensis
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| Cetiosaurus oxoniensis Phillips, 1871
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Cetiosaurus was discovered in 1842. It was the first sauropod from which bones were described, and is the most complete sauropod found in England.[3] The dinosaur was about 16 metres (52 ft) long and to have weighed roughly 11 tonnes (12 short tons). It is now known as Cetiosaurus oxoniensis.
References
change- ↑ "Cetiosauriscus - Natural History Museum". www.nhm.ac.uk.
- ↑ von Huene F. 1927. Sichtung der Grundlagen der jetzigen Kenntnis der Sauropoden [Sorting through the basis of the current knowledge of sauropods] (PDF). Eclogae Geologica Helveticae (in German). 20: 444–470.
- ↑ Charig A.J. 1980. A diplodocid sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous of England. In Jacobs, L.L. Aspects of Vertebrate History: Essays in Honor of Edwin Harris Colbert. Museum of Northern Arizona Press. pp. 231–244. ISBN 978-0-897-34053-3.