Ceratocaudia
Field photograph to come
Ceratocaudia
DV-1298 · type species Ceratocaudia antiqua
- Lived
- 201 to 168 million years ago, Early Jurassic to Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- India
- Named by
- Natarajan et al. 2026
Field notes
About Ceratocaudia
Ceratocaudia was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Early Jurassic to Middle Jurassic, 201 to 168 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Ceratocaudia, from India. Its fossils come from the Kaladongar Formation. It was named by Natarajan et al. in 2026.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
185 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Macronaria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. Natarajan, S. Bhosale, and N. Rakshit, S. Dasgupta. 2026. A new diminutive Jurassic neosauropod from the Kaladongar Formation (Khadir Uplift) of the Kachchh Basin, western India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (e2677749):1-41