Xenoposeidon proneneukos
"strange or alien Poseidon"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Xenoposeidon 15 m (49 ft) long
as long as 9 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 15 m (49 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (140 Mya)
- Place
- United Kingdom
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Rebbachisauridae
Xenoposeidon (meaning “strange or alien Poseidon”, in allusion to Sauroposeidon) is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of England, living about 140 million years ago. It is known from a single partial vertebra with unusual features, unlike those of other sauropods. This bone was first discovered in the early 1890s but received little attention until it was found by University of Portsmouth student Mike Taylor, who formally described and named it in 2007 with Darren Naish.
What we know
- Named by Taylor & Naish, 2007.
- Body length estimated at about 15 m.
- Fossils found in United Kingdom.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Xenoposeidon — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.