Outline: a typical sauropod
Australodocus
"southern beam"
Type species Australodocus bohetii
- Lived
- 149 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Tanzania
- Named by
- Remes 2007
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
145 million years ago
Field notes
About Australodocus
What it was like
Australodocus was a long-necked sauropod known from a few neck bones. It was first thought to be a relative of Diplodocus, but later studies suggest it was closer to the titanosaurs.
Its world
It lived in the Late Jurassic in what is now Tanzania. Its bones come from the Tendaguru Formation, a rich site shared with the giant Giraffatitan, the short-necked Dicraeosaurus and the spiked Kentrosaurus.
How it was found
Remes named it in 2007. The type species is Australodocus bohetii.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Somphospondyli
Sources: WikidataNamed in: K. Remes. 2007. A second Gondwanan diplodocid dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Tendaguru Beds of Tanzania, East Africa. Palaeontology 50(3):653-667