Rhoetosaurus
Field photograph to come
Rhoetosaurus
DV-0132 · type species Rhoetosaurus brownei
- Lived
- 159 to 158 million years ago, Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 15 m (49 ft)
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Australia
- Named by
- Longman 1926
Field notes
About Rhoetosaurus
Rhoetosaurus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Jurassic, 159 to 158 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Rhoetosaurus, from Australia. Its fossils come from the Walloon Coal Measures Formation. It was named by Longman in 1926.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
160 million years ago
To scale
How big was Rhoetosaurus?
Close relatives
Other members of Eusauropoda.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: H. A. Longman. 1926. A giant dinosaur from Durham Downs, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3):183-194