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long-neck giant
Kaatedocus
Say it like this: “kaht-uh-doh-kus”
Kaatedocus siberi
Kaatedocus ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in the United States.
- When
- Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) · roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2012 · Tschopp, E.; Mateus, O.
- Hip height
- 2 m · 7 ft
- Length
- 14 m · 46 ft
- Weight
- 2 tonnes
- Found in
- the United States · Morrison
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Flagellicaudata
The story in short
In 2012, E. Tschopp and O. Mateus published the name Kaatedocus. The name means “small beam.”
Fossils referred to Kaatedocus date to the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian), roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Morrison Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Kaatedocus at a length near 14 m, hips about 2 m high, and a body mass around 2 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Flagellicaudata, among the sauropod dinosaurs.