CARDIODON
a turiasaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England.
Pronunciation:
Meaning: Heart tooth
Author/s: Owen (
1844)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Wiltshire, England
Discovery Chart Position: #8
Cardiodon rugulosus
(Finely Wrinkled Heart Tooth)Etymology
Cardiodon is derived from the Greek "kardia" (heart) and "odon" (tooth), referring to "the heart-shaped form of the crown of the fossil tooth".
The
species epithet,
rugulosus, means "finely wrinkled" (or rough or ridged) in Latin.
Synonyms
Cetiosaurus rugulosus (Steel, 1970).
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Middle Jurassic
Stage: Bathonian
Age range: 168-165 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Owen R (1841) "
Odontography, Volume I ".
Hippolyte Baillière. 655 p.
• Owen R (1844) "
Odontography, Volume II".
Hippolyte Baillière. 655 p.
• Owen R (1849-84) "
A History of British Fossil Reptiles, Vol. 1".
Page 625-626.
• Phillips J (1871) "Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames".
Clarendon Press:Oxford, 529 p.
• Owen R (1875) "Monographs of the fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic formations (part III) (genera
Bothriospondylus,
Cetiosaurus,
Omosaurus)".
Palaeontographical Society Monographs 29: 15-93.
• Lydekker R (1890) "Suborder Sauropoda". Page 131–152 in Lydekker (ed.) "Catalogue of the Fossil Reptile and Amphibia of the British Museum (Natural History). Part 1".
• Steel R (1970) "Saurischia. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Part 14".
Gustav Fischer Verlag: Stuttgart, p. 1–87.
• Upchurch PM and Martin J (2003) "The anatomy and taxonomy of
Cetiosaurus (Saurischia, Sauropoda) from the Middle Jurassic of England".
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 23(1): 208-231.
• Upchurch PM, Barrett PM and Dodson P (2004) "Sauropoda". Page 259–322 in Weishampel, Dodson and Osmólska (eds.) "
The Dinosauria: Second Edition".
• Royo-Torres R, Cobos A and Alcalá L (2006) "
A Giant European Dinosaur and a New Sauropod clade".
Science, 314(5807): 1925-7. DOI: 10.1126/science.1132885.
• Taylor MP (2010) "Sauropod dinosaur research: a historical review". Page 361–386 in Moody, Buffetaut, Naish and Martill (eds.) "
Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective".
Geological Society of London, Special Publication 343.
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