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long-neck giant
Neosodon
Say it like this: “NEE-o-SOH-don”
Neosodon sp.
Neosodon ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in France.
- When
- Late Jurassic (Tithonian) · roughly 149.2 to 143.1 million years ago
- Named in
- 1884 · de la Moussaye, G.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 22 m · 72 ft
- Weight
- 35 tonnes
- Found in
- France
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Sauropoda
The story in short
Neosodon was formally named in 1884 by G. de la Moussaye. The name means “new tooth.”
It lived in the Late Jurassic (Tithonian), roughly 149.2 to 143.1 million years ago. Finds come from France. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Neosodon at a length near 22 m and a body mass around 35 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Sauropoda, among the sauropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Aepisaurus
Aepisaurus elephantinus
Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago
Amygdalodon
Amygdalodon patagonicus
Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian · Toarcian) · roughly 192.9 to 174.7 million years ago
Archaeodontosaurus
Archaeodontosaurus descouensi
Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) · roughly 168.2 to 165.3 million years ago