Cetiosaurus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic 167 mya
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Mounted skeleton, New Walk Museum | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
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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Binomial name | |
Cetiosaurus oxoniensis Phillips, 1871
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Cetiosaurus is a sauropod dinosaur whose remains were found in Oxfordshire. It was a herbivore.[1][2]
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.