Australodocus
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Australodocus
DV-0621 · type species Australodocus bohetii
- Lived
- 149 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Tanzania
- Named by
- Remes 2007
Field notes
About Australodocus
Australodocus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 149 to 143 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Australodocus, from Tanzania. Its fossils come from the Tendaguru Formation. It was named by Remes in 2007.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
145 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Somphospondyli.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: K. Remes. 2007. A second Gondwanan diplodocid dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Tendaguru Beds of Tanzania, East Africa. Palaeontology 50(3):653-667