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long-neck giant
Rugocaudia
Say it like this: “ROO-go-CAW-dee-uh”
Rugocaudia cooneyi
Rugocaudia ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United States.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago
- Named in
- 2012 · Woodruff, D. C.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 14.1 m · 46 ft
- Weight
- 6.3 tonnes
- Found in
- the United States · Cloverly
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Titanosauriformes
The story in short
The genus Rugocaudia dates to 2012, the year D. C. Woodruff described it. The name means “wrinkled tail.”
Fossils referred to Rugocaudia date to the Early Cretaceous (Albian), roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Cloverly Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Rugocaudia at a length near 14.1 m and a body mass around 6.3 tonnes.
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
Dinodocus
Dinodocus mackesoni
Early Cretaceous (Aptian · Albian) · roughly 121.4 to 100.5 million years ago
Duriatitan
Duriatitan humerocristatus
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) · roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago