Kaatedocus
Name:
Kaatedocus
(small beam?).
Phonetic: Kaat-e-doe-kus.
Named By: E. Tschopp & O. V. Mateus
- 2012.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Sauropodomorpha, Diplodocidae, Diplodocinae.
Species: K. siberi (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly about 15 meters long, though
only the skull and some cervical vertebrae have survived a fire at the
American Museum of Natural History.
Known locations: USA, Wyoming.
Time period: Kimmeridgian of the Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Skull and Cervical (neck)
vertebrae. Other fossils once collected were destroyed in a fire.
Fossils of Kaatedocus were first recovered in 1934 and subsequently assigned to the genus Barosaurus. Later study of the fossils revealed them to actually represent a distinct genus of diplodocid sauropod.
Further reading
- The skull and neck of a new flagellicaudatan sauropod from the
Morrison Formation and its implication for the evolution and ontogeny
of diplodocid dinosaurs. - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology:
1. - E. Tschopp & O. V. Mateus - 2012.
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