Australodocus bohetii
"southern beam"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Australodocus 17 m (56 ft) long
as long as 10 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 17 m (56 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (150–145 Mya)
- Place
- Tanzania
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Australodocus (meaning “southern beam” from the Latin australis “southern” and the Greek dokos/δοκоς “beam”) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic period, around 150 million years ago, in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania. Though initially considered a diplodocid, recent analyses suggest it may instead be a titanosauriform.
What we know
- Named by Remes, 2007.
- Body length estimated at about 17 m.
- Fossils found in Tanzania.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Australodocus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.