Cetiosauriscus
Cetiosauriscus is a sauropod dinosaur that lived between 166 and 164 million years ago during the Middle Jurassic in what is now England. The fossil was originally confused with Cetiosaurus, a similar sauropod. [1]
| Cetiosauriscus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, | |
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| Composite photo of the mounted holotype skeleton soon before display in 1905 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Gravisauria |
| Clade: | †Eusauropoda |
| Genus: | †Cetiosauriscus von Huene, 1927 |
| Species: | †C. stewarti |
| Binomial name | |
| Cetiosauriscus stewarti Charig, 1980 | |
Cetiosauriscus was discovered in May 1898 by clay workers south of Peterborough and east of the Great Northern Railway. Pits in this region expose the fossil-rich sedimentary rocks of the marine Oxford Clay, one of the classic geological formations of British palaeontology.[2]
References
- Charig A.J. 1980. A diplodocid sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous of England. In Jacobs L.L. Aspects of Vertebrate History: Essays in Honor of Edwin Harris Colbert. Museum of Northern Arizona Press, pp. 231–244. ISBN 978-0-897-34053-3
- Smith, J.B. (1997). "Oxford Clay". In Currie, P.J.; Padian, K. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. pp. 509–510. ISBN 978-0-12-226810-6.
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