Cetiosauriscus
genus of reptiles (fossil) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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Cetiosauriscus | |
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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 | |
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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]