Cetiosauriscus

little Cetiosaurus / Cetiosaurus-like

• Cetiosaurus · Greek (genus name) · whale lizard
• -iskos · Greek · diminutive suffix, 'little' or 'resembling'

The name means roughly "little Cetiosaurus" or "Cetiosaurus-like". It was built from Cetiosaurus ("whale lizard") plus the Greek diminutive suffix -iskos. It was chosen because the animal was thought to resemble the earlier sauropod Cetiosaurus.

Named by

von Huene

Year named

1927

Period

Middle Jurassic

Stage

Callovian

Found in

Oxford Clay Formation, near Peterborough, England

A sauropod. The best-known species, C. stewarti, was originally described as a species of Cetiosaurus. Some other species once placed in the genus have since been moved elsewhere. The exact dates and details of the type species are not fully verified here.