Dinosaur
Cetiosaurus
Its neck and tail were shorter than those of many other sauropods.
Cetiosaurus received a name related to whales before sauropods were well understood.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Cetiosaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Jurassic
- Group
- Eusauropoda
- Eusauropods
- Fossil locations
- England
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Cetiosaurus
It was the first sauropod whose bones received a description, in 1842. Its name "whale lizard" preserves the initial interpretation that it was a marine animal.
Its neck and tail were shorter than those of many other sauropods. The initial interpretation of a marine animal is left behind. Its bones show how comparison with new finds can completely transform the image of an ancient fossil.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Cetiosaurus
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- Eusauropoda
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