What is Cetiosaurus?
{{distinguish|text=the sauropod dinosaur Cetiosaurus}} {{italic title}} {{speciesbox | fossil_range = [[Middle Jurassic]] {{br}}167 [[mya]] | image = Cetiosaurus mount.jpg | image_caption = Mounted skeleton, [[New Walk Museum]] | grandparent_authority = [[Richard Lydekker|Lydekker]], 1888 | genus = Cetiosaurus | parent_authority = [[Richard Owen|Owen]], 1841 | species = oxoniensis | authority = Phillips, 1871 }} '''''Cetiosaurus''''' is a [[sauropod]] [[dinosaur]] whose remains were found in [[Oxfordshire]]. It was a [[herbivore]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/cetiosauriscus.html|title=Cetiosauriscus - Natural History Museum|website=www.nhm.ac.uk}}</ref><ref> von Huene F. 1927. Sichtung der Grundlagen der jetzigen Kenntnis der Sauropoden [Sorting through the basis of the current knowledge of sauropods] (PDF). Eclogae Geologica Helveticae (in German). '''20''': 444–470.</ref> ''Cetiosaurus'' was discovered in 1842. It was the first sauropod from which bones were described, and is the most complete sauropod found in [[England]].<ref> Charig A.J. 1980. A diplodocid sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous of England. In Jacobs, L.L. Aspects of Vertebrate History: Essays in Honor of Edwin Harris Colbert. Museum of Northern Arizona Press. pp. 231–244. ISBN 978-0-897-34053-3.</ref> The dinosaur was about 16 [[metres]] (52 ft) long and to have weighed roughly 11 [[tonne]]s (12 [[short ton]]s). It is now known as ''Cetiosaurus oxoniensis''. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Sauropods]] [[Category:Jurassic dinosaurs]] [[Category:Dinosaurs of Europe]] [[Category:Oxford]] [[Category:England]]