| |Late Triassic|Map|Early Jurassic|Map|Middle Jurassic|Map|Late Jurassic|Map|Early Cretaceous|Map|Late Cretaceous|Map| |
| |Ca|No|Rh|He|Si|Pl|To|Aa|Ba|Ba|Ca|Ox|Ki|Ti|Be|Va|Ha|Ba|Ap|Al|Ce|Tu|Co|Sa|Ca|Ma| |
| Nomina Dubia | Misspelling | No Dinosaur | Inc. Sedis | Type species | Eggs | Skin | Sail | Skull | Genera |
|
Dinosaurs
C |
|
CHONDROSTEOSAURUS gigas |
| DESCRIBER | Owen,1876 |
| TIME | Cretaceous
Early Hauterivian Barremian |
| CLASSIFICATION | Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Camarasauridae Opisthocoelicaudiinae |
| DIET | Herbivore |
| FOSSILSITE | Wealden Beds, Isle of Wight, West Sussex, England |
| FALL UNDER | CHONDROSTEOSAURUS |
| LENGTH | |
| INFO | Chondrosteosaurus
(Owen,1876)
> C. gigas (Owen,1876) Chondrosteosaurus
= Chondrosteus
(Huene
1907-1908 /
Agassiz, 1833 - 1844)
Several cervical vertebrae.The texture of the bone is coarsely cancellous in contrast to the fine spongy nature in Cetiosaurus. Chondrosteosaurus could represent a titanosauriform sauropod (somphospondilian) instead of a camarasaur. |
