Cardiodon rugulosus
"heart tooth"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Cardiodon 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (167 Mya)
- Place
- United Kingdom
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Cardiodon (meaning “heart tooth”, in reference to the shape) was a herbivorous genus of sauropod dinosaur, based on a tooth from the Middle Jurassic (late Bathonian) Forest Marble Formation of Wiltshire, England. Historically, it is very obscure and usually referred to Cetiosaurus, but recent analyses suggest that it is a distinct genus, and possibly related to Turiasaurus. Cardiodon was the first sauropod genus named.
What we know
- Named by Owen, 1844.
- Fossils found in United Kingdom.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Cardiodon — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.