Kaatedocus
Field photograph to come
Kaatedocus
DV-0858 · type species Kaatedocus siberi
- Lived
- 155 to 149 million years ago, Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Dicraeosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Tschopp and Mateus 2013
Field notes
About Kaatedocus
Kaatedocus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Jurassic, 155 to 149 million years ago. It belongs to the family Dicraeosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Kaatedocus, from Wyoming. Its fossils come from the Morrison Formation. It was named by Tschopp and Mateus in 2013.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
150 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Dicraeosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: E. Tschopp and O. Mateus. 2013. The skull and neck of a new flagellicaudatan sauropod from the Morrison Formation and its implication for the evolution and ontogeny of diplodocid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11(7):853-888