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long-neck giant
Ceratocaudia
Ceratocaudia antiqua
Ceratocaudia had a diet that is still unclear and walked on four legs. It lived in the Early Jurassic · Middle Jurassic. Bones have been found in India.
- When
- Early Jurassic · Middle Jurassic (Toarcian · Aalenian · Bajocian) · roughly 184.2 to 168.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2026 · Natarajan, A.; Bhosale, S.; Rakshit, N.; Dasgupta, S.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 7 m · 23 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- India · Kaladongar
- Food and walking
- Not recorded · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Macronaria
The story in short
The genus Ceratocaudia dates to 2026, the year A. Natarajan and colleagues described it.
It lived in the Early Jurassic · Middle Jurassic (Toarcian · Aalenian · Bajocian), roughly 184.2 to 168.2 million years ago. Finds come from India, including the Kaladongar Formation. It walked on four legs. Its diet is too uncertain to state.
Published estimates put Ceratocaudia at a length near 7 m.
On the family tree it sits in Macronaria, among the sauropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Abrosaurus
Abrosaurus dongpoi
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago
Aragosaurus
Aragosaurus ischiaticus
Late Jurassic · Early Cretaceous (Tithonian · Berriasian) · roughly 149.2 to 137.1 million years ago
Astrodon
Astrodon johnstoni
Early Cretaceous (Aptian · Albian) · roughly 121.4 to 100.5 million years ago