Genre
Valide Éteint

Cetiosaurus

Owen 1841

Cetiosaurus est un genre fossile de grands dinosaures sauropodes eusauropodes, un quadrupède herbivore à long cou, un peu plus court cependant que le reste de son corps. Selon Paleobiology Database en 2025, ce genre a quatre espèces référencées, Cetiosaurus brevis, Cetiosaurus mogrebiensis, Cetiosaurus oxoniensis, Cetiosaurus philippsii.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
30
Groupe
Dinosaures
Herbivore Vivant au sol, grégaire Terrestre
Cetiosaurus
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Cetiosaurus oxoniensis, "Rutland Dinosaur". New Walk Museum, Leicester. Tuesday, 17 July, 2012 © Paul Stainthorp from United Kingdom · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
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Saurischia Clade non classé
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Sauropodomorpha Clade non classé
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Massopoda Clade non classé
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Sauropodiformes Clade non classé
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Sauropoda Clade non classé
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Gravisauria Clade non classé
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Cetiosaurus Genre
Sites de découverte 30 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇬🇧 Royaume-Uni
22
🇲🇦 Maroc
6
🇫🇷 France
1
🇪🇸 Espagne
1
Formations géologiques
El Mers
6
Chipping Norton Limestone
3
Forest Marble
3
Wessex
2
Rutland
1
Hampen Marly
1
Oolithe miliaire
1
Sharp's Hill
1
Taynton Limestone
1
Oxford Clay
1
Distribution temporelle
Barrémien (125.77–121.4 Ma)
2
Hauterivien (132.6–125.77 Ma)
3
Callovien (165.3–161.5 Ma)
2
Bathonien (168.2–165.3 Ma)
21
Bajocien (170.9–168.2 Ma)
1
Aalénien (174.7–170.9 Ma)
1
Espèces (5)
Cetiosaurus brevis nomen dubium, species not entered Cetiosaurus 137 Ma
Cetiosaurus giganteus subjective synonym of Cetiosaurus oxoniensis 169 Ma
Cetiosaurus mogrebiensis nomen dubium, species not entered Cetiosaurus 168 Ma
Cetiosaurus oxoniensis 169 Ma
Cetiosaurus philippsii
Synonymes (2)
Cetiosaurus brevis nomen dubium, species not entered Cetiosaurus
Cetiosaurus mogrebiensis nomen dubium, species not entered Cetiosaurus
Bibliographie
Description originale
R. Owen. 1841. Description of a portion of the skeleton of the Cetiosaurus, a gigantic extinct saurian reptile occurring in the Oolitic formations of different portions of England. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 3, part 2(80):457-462
Bibliographie (18)
E. Buffetaut, B. Gibout, and I. Launois, C. Delacroix. 2011. The sauropod dinosaur Cetiosaurus OWEN in the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of the Ardennes (NE France): insular, but not dwarf. Carnets de Géologie/Notebooks on Geology 2011/06:149-161 DOI ↗
P. M. Galton and F. Knoll. 2006. A saurischian dinosaur braincase from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) near Oxford, England: from the theropod Megalosaurus or the sauropod Cetiosaurus?. Geological Magazine 143(6):905-921 DOI ↗
S. E. Evans and A. R. Milner. 1994. Middle Jurassic microvertebrate assemblages from the British Isles. In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods, N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues (eds.), Cambridge University Press
S. J. Metcalf, R. F. Vaughan, and M. J. Benton, J. Cole, M. J. Simms, D. L. Dartnall. 1992. A new Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) microvertebrate site, within the Chipping Norton Limestone Formation at Honsleasow Quarry, Gloucestershire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 103:321-342 DOI ↗
E. F. Freeman. 1979. A Middle Jurassic mammal bed from Oxfordshire. Palaeontology 22(1):135-166
J. B. Delair. 1973. The dinosaurs of Wiltshire. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 68:1-7
M. D. Jones. 1970. Cetiosaurus oxoniensis, Phillips J. A middle Jurassic sauropod from Rutland, England. Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society 64:144-150
W. E. Swinton. 1970. The Dinosaurs, Wiley-Interscience, New York DOI ↗
A. F. d. Lapparent. 1955. Étude paléontologique des vertébrés du Jurassique d'El Mers (Moyen Atlas) [Paleontological study of the Jurassic veretebrates from El Mers (Middle Atlas)]. Notes et Mémoires du Service Géologique du Maroc 124:1-36
S. H. Reynolds. 1939. On a collection of reptilian bones from the Oolite of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. Geological Magazine 76(5):193-214 DOI ↗
S. H. Reynolds. 1937. A collection of reptilian bones from the Oölite near Stow-on-the-Wold, Glos. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 107:356-357
J. F. Jackson. 1931. A catalogue of Cretaceous fossils in the Museum of Isle of Wight Geology, the Free Library, Sandown. Part II: Lower Cretaceous. Proceedings of the Isle of Wight Natural History and Archaeological Society 2(1):45-61
J. Royo y Gomez. 1927. Sur le faciès wealdien d'Espagne [On the Wealden facies of Spain]. Compte Rendu Sommaire des Séances de la Société géologique de France 47(3):125-128
R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London DOI ↗
J. Phillips. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford DOI ↗
J. Phillips. 1870. [A notice of some specimens of Megalosaurian bones in this Museum]. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 26(1):13-16
R. Owen. 1842. Report on British fossil reptiles, part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 11:60-204
R. Owen. 1841. Description of a portion of the skeleton of the Cetiosaurus, a gigantic extinct saurian reptile occurring in the Oolitic formations of different portions of England. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 3, part 2(80):457-462