Species
Valid Extinct

Cetiosaurus oxoniensis

(Phillips 1871)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
6
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Saurischia Unranked clade
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Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
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Massopoda Unranked clade
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Sauropodiformes Unranked clade
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Sauropoda Unranked clade
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Gravisauria Unranked clade
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Cetiosaurus Genus
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Cetiosaurus oxoniensis Species
Fossil sites 6 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
6
Geological formations
Rutland
1
Forest Marble
1
Taynton Limestone
1
Temporal distribution
Bathonian (168.2–165.3 Ma)
5
Bajocian (170.9–168.2 Ma)
1
Synonyms (1)
Cetiosaurus giganteus subjective synonym of Cetiosaurus oxoniensis
Bibliography
Original description
J. Phillips. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford DOI ↗
Bibliography (5)
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 ↗
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