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long-neck giant · Doubtful name
Dinodocus
Say it like this: “die-NOD-o-kus”
Dinodocus mackesoni
Dinodocus ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United Kingdom.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Aptian · Albian) · roughly 121.4 to 100.5 million years ago
- Named in
- 1884 · Owen, R.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 15 m · 49 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- the United Kingdom
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Titanosauriformes
The story in short
Dinodocus was formally named in 1884 by R. Owen. The name means “terrible beam.”
Fossils referred to Dinodocus date to the Early Cretaceous (Aptian · Albian), roughly 121.4 to 100.5 million years ago. Finds come from the United Kingdom. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Dinodocus at a length near 15 m.
On the family tree it sits in Titanosauriformes, among the sauropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Brohisaurus
Brohisaurus kirthari
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) · roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago
Duriatitan
Duriatitan humerocristatus
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) · roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago
Eucamerotus
Eucamerotus foxi
Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago