Cetiosaurus

Cetiosaurus, is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period, living about 171 to 165 million years ago during the Bajocian and Bathonian ages in what is now Britain and probably France.

Cetiosaurus

Paul Stainthorp from United Kingdom · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GravisauriaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Sauropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Sauropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Sauropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sauropoda
Length
18 mWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 25 of 30 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 30 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous176–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 14 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 7 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.2 Mya125.77 Mya176 Mya118 Mya

30 occurrences of Cetiosaurus on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

30 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

12 formations

El Mers — 33.43°N, 4.42°WEl Mers — 33.45°N, 4.46°WEl Mers — 33.46°N, 4.43°WEl Mers — 33.48°N, 4.33°WChipping Norton Limestone — 51.99°N, 1.80°WChipping Norton Limestone — 51.95°N, 1.75°WChipping Norton Limestone — 51.98°N, 1.65°WForest Marble — 51.86°N, 1.30°WWessex — 50.66°N, 1.47°WRutland — 52.63°N, 0.67°WSharp's Hill — 51.91°N, 1.58°WTaynton Limestone — 51.86°N, 1.43°WArcillas de Morella — 40.62°N, 0.10°WOxford Clay — 51.33°N, 2.21°WHampen Marly — 51.80°N, 1.23°WOolithe miliaire — 49.66°N, 4.80°ETunbridge Wells Sand — 51.01°N, 0.14°W

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The named rock units Cetiosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cetiosaurus and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Cetiosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Cetiosaurus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

18 references

Each of the 30 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 6 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Cetiosaurus

Credit
Paul Stainthorp from United Kingdom
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Cetiosaurus sp. · oumnh:pal:J.50308

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGravisauria through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1841