Cetiosaurus

Not to be confused with the sauropod dinosaur Cetiosaurus.

Cetiosaurus is a sauropod dinosaur whose remains were found in Oxfordshire. It was a herbivore.^[1][2]

Cetiosaurus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic 167 mya
Mounted skeleton, New Walk Museum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:	†Sauropoda
Family:	†Cetiosauridae
Subfamily:	†Cetiosaurinae Lydekker, 1888
Genus:	†Cetiosaurus Owen, 1841
Species:	†C. oxoniensis
Binomial name
Cetiosaurus oxoniensis Phillips, 1871

Cetiosaurus was discovered in 1842. It was the first sauropod from which bones were described, and is the most complete sauropod found in England.^[3] The dinosaur was about 16 metres (52 ft) long and to have weighed roughly 11 tonnes (12 short tons). It is now known as Cetiosaurus oxoniensis.