Dinosaur Name: Whale Dragon (mainland) Latin name: cetiosaurus Dinosaur body length: 14 - 18 m Dinosaur Weight: Unknown Dinosaur Food: Plants Survival Period: Late Jurassic Survival Location: Northern Africa, England To identify the decision: Unknown Dinosaur Species: saurischian · sauropod Dragon is one of the whales found in the earliest dinosaurs. 1841, found that people with sporadic teeth and bones name. In 1870, a home is not complete skeleton was found near Oxford, UK. Long a whale femur found in Morocco in 1979, as much as two meters long, equivalent to the height of a tall man. Whale dragon is still raw in some respects: it's spine is hollow. Later, sauropod dinosaur spine has a cavity - to reduce weight.
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Whale dragon shape
Cetiosaurus huge body supported by columnar limbs, almost the length of its fore and hind limbs, thigh about two meters long, the back to keep the level of the basic state. Whale dragon's teeth may be the same as the rake can be ripped off the leaves of plants. Biologists have not yet found a complete fossil whale bone faucet. According to its fossil teeth speculated that whales dragon's head is smaller.
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Whale dragon's spine
Whale dragon's spine is almost solid, looks strong compared with the late heavy Brachiosaurus dinosaurs and other lizards. And whale dragon's spine, there are some useless in the central part of the vertebral body, the neural crest and vertebral joints are not as long and strong as Brachiosaurus. But there are many holes on its spongy spine, somewhat similar to modern whales.
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Lifestyle whale dragon
Whale dragon living in the Mesozoic coastal lowlands. This sea was mainly distributed in modern Britain. Whale Long neck is not flexible and can swing around the arc in the range of 3 meters. So Cetiosaurus can only bow to drink water, or chewing on a small fern leaves and leafy trees.
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Cetiosaurus relatives - like Cetiosaurus
Dragon is like watching a man named Xu 1972 by American paleontologist named Carolina, meaning "like whale dragon dinosaur", it really is very similar with the whale dragon. This dinosaur lived in the late Jurassic southern England and Switzerland, and whales belong to sauropods dragon, body length of 15 meters.
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Cetiosaurus relatives - like Cetiosaurus
Dragon is like watching a man named Xu 1972 by American paleontologist named Carolina, meaning "like whale dragon dinosaur", it really is very similar with the whale dragon. This dinosaur lived in the late Jurassic southern England and Switzerland, and whales belong to sauropods dragon, body length of 15 meters. Whale Dragon (scientific name Cetiosaurus) is to late Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs, dating back about 181-169 million years ago, living in Europe, UK and Africa and Morocco. It is estimated that about 16 meters long and weighs about 24.8 tonnes. Its scientific name is from the ancient Greek meaning of "κητος" (meaning "sea monster", and after the whale) from, because of its discoverer Sir Richard Owen (Richard Owen) originally thought it was the sea huge crocodile. It is a four-legged herbivorous dinosaurs, long neck small head, compared to other sauropods original and short tail.
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Description
Whale dragon is the long-necked quadrupedal dinosaur, about 18 meters long. As long as it's neck and body, the tail is relatively long, contains at least 40 of the spine. It's very heavy and the original back of the spine, is not as high, such as sauropod (such as Brachiosaurus) like bones are hollow. As long as its radius and humerus, femur and about 6 feet long. Whale Dragon and other early sauropod vertebrae is almost solid, which is characteristic of primitive dinosaurs. With the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs were, they began to have a cavity spine, which can reduce their weight.
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Discovery and species
Dragon is the first whale species are found in sauropods, and sauropod dinosaur first discovered in England. Fossilized remains were found in England and Monaco. Isle of Wight in England have discovered a spine, ribs and forearm, by the British biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist Sir Richard Owen in 1841 (the year before he was named the dinosaur) are Naming. More limb and another nearly complete skeleton was found, respectively, in the late 1840s and 1868. Owen believes it has the characteristics of a crocodile. But ironically, whale dragon going to Thomas Henry Huxley (Thomas Henry Huxley) in 1869, it was only as the dinosaurs really know. Oxford whale Dragon (C. oxoniensis) from Oxfordshire, England, and Rutland found dating to the Jurassic Bajocian than whale Long Short Body type species (C. brevis) all data more, and is considered another new class. Studies have shown that in the middle of the dragon whale fossils too small to define Cetiosaurus therefore think it is suspicious name.
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Classification
Whale seems to be a close relative of the giant dragon legs dragon dragon and Patagonia in South America. Together they make up the whale Long Branch, Division of dinosaurs in the past that some unknown primitive sauropod.
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Palaeobiology
Whale dragon and the dragon and beauty spots twist vertebral dinosaur dragon is the same period, and may be their prey. Whale Long live environment floodplain and woodland.
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Scientific classification
Animal world: Animalia Door: Animal phylum Chordata Gang: lizard-shaped outline Sauropsida Head: Total dinosaur head Dinosauria Head: saurischian Saurischia Suborder: lizard foot suborder Sauropodomorpha Under Head: sauropod Sauropoda Branch: Whale Long Branch Cetiosauridae (Lydekker, 1888) Genus: Whale dragon is Cetiosaurus