Australodocus

Field photograph to come

DV-0621Tendaguru Fm., Tanzania

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

1 find

145 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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