Rhoetosaurus brownei
"Rhoetus lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Rhoetosaurus 15 m (49 ft) long
as long as 9 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 15 m (49 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (162.6 Mya)
- Place
- Australia · Gondwana
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Rhoetosaurus (meaning “Rhoetus lizard”, after a titan in Greek mythology) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) Walloon Coal Measures of what is now eastern Australia. Rhoetosaurus is estimated to have been about 15 m long, weighing about 9 t. Subsequent authors have sometimes misspelled the name: Rhaetosaurus (de Lapparent & Laverat, 1955); Rheteosaurus (Yadagiri, Prasad & Satsangi, 1979).
What we know
- Named by Longman, 1926.
- Body length estimated at about 15 m.
- Fossils found in Australia and Gondwana.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Rhoetosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.