Outline: a typical sauropod
Cetiosauriscus
SEE-tee-oh-SORE-iss-kus
"like Cetiosaurus"
- Lived
- 165 to 162 million years ago, Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 15 m (49 ft)
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Huene 1927
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical sauropod shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
165 million years ago
Field notes
About Cetiosauriscus
What it was like
Cetiosauriscus was a long-necked sauropod about 15 meters (49 feet) long. It is known from a partial skeleton, mainly the back half of the body, with the tail, hips and legs.
Its world
It lived about 165 million years ago, in the Middle Jurassic, in what is now England. Its bones come from the Oxford Clay, laid down in a shallow sea near land. The predator Eustreptospondylus and the stegosaur Loricatosaurus come from the same rocks.
How it was found
Huene named Cetiosauriscus. Its relationships have long been debated, and other bones once placed in the genus are now thought to belong to other animals.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Flagellicaudata
Sources: WikidataNamed in: F. v. Huene. 1927. Sichtung der Grundlagen der jetzigen Kenntnis der Sauropoden [Sorting through the basis of the current knowledge of sauropods]. Eclogae Geologica Helveticae 20:444-470