Name
Kaatedocus (small beam?).
Phonetic
Kaat-e-doe-kus.
Named By
E. Tschopp & O. V. Mateus - 2012.
Classification
Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha, Diplodocidae, Diplodocinae.
Diet
Herbivore.
Species
K. siberi
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.
- 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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