Outline: a typical sauropod
Cedarosaurus
"Cedar lizard"
Type species Cedarosaurus weiskopfae
- Lived
- 137 to 110 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Brachiosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Tidwell et al. 1999
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
125 million years ago
Field notes
About Cedarosaurus
What it was like
Cedarosaurus was a long-necked plant eater related to Brachiosaurus. Its front legs were longer than its back legs, so it held its neck high. Polished stones found with one skeleton may have been swallowed and kept in its gut.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Utah and Texas. Its bones come from the Cedar Mountain and Paluxy formations. In Utah it shared the land with the big raptor Utahraptor and the armored Gastonia.
How it was found
Tidwell and colleagues named it in 1999. The type species is Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. It is named after the Cedar Mountain Formation.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Brachiosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: V. Tidwell, K. Carpenter, and W. Brooks. 1999. New sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah, USA. Oryctos 2:21-37