Thecodontosaurus

DV-0006

Lived: 247 to 193 million years ago, Middle Triassic to Early Jurassic
Length: about 2.5 m (8 ft)
Group: Early sauropodomorphs
Found in: United Kingdom, Germany, France, Lesotho and Zimbabwe
Named by: Riley and Stutchbury 1836

Field notes

About Thecodontosaurus

Thecodontosaurus was an early sauropodomorph that lived in the Middle Triassic to Early Jurassic, 247 to 193 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 10 finds of Thecodontosaurus, from United Kingdom, Germany and France. Its fossils come from rocks including the Elliot Formation, the Forest Sandstone Formation and the Magnesian Conglomerate Formation. It was named by Riley and Stutchbury in 1836.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

10 finds

220 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

To scale

How big was Thecodontosaurus?

Thecodontosaurus: about 2.5 m (8 ft) · Person: 1.8 m (6 ft)Silhouette: typical early sauropodomorph shape

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Sauropodomorpha.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: H. Riley and S. Stutchbury. 1836. A description of various fossil remains of three distinct saurian animals discovered in the autumn of 1834, in the Magnesian Conglomerate on Durdham Down, near Bristol. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2:397-399