Outline: a typical sauropod
Ceratocaudia
"horned tail"
Type species Ceratocaudia antiqua
- Lived
- 201 to 168 million years ago, Early Jurassic to Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- India
- Named by
- Natarajan et al. 2026
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
185 million years ago
Field notes
About Ceratocaudia
What it was like
Ceratocaudia was a long-necked sauropod known from a partial skeleton. Its tail bones carry unusual horn-like points, which gave it its name.
Its world
It lived in the Jurassic in what is now India. Its bones come from the Kaladongar Formation.
How it was found
Natarajan and colleagues named it in 2026. The type species is Ceratocaudia antiqua.
Close relatives
Other members of Macronaria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: A. Natarajan, S. Bhosale, and N. Rakshit, S. Dasgupta. 2026. A new diminutive Jurassic neosauropod from the Kaladongar Formation (Khadir Uplift) of the Kachchh Basin, western India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (e2677749):1-41