Cetiosauriscus
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Cetiosauriscus ("whale-lizard-like" i.e. "Cetiosaurus-like") was a close relative of Diplodocus and lived in the Middle to Late Jurassic Period of England (about 170 million years ago (mya). It was a quadrupedal, herbivorous, saurischian dinosaur.
It was first named by German palaeontologist Friedrich von Huene, in 1927 and is known from a series of vertebrae from the rear half of the skeleton. It has been estimated that this creature stood 6 metres high and was 15 metres in length, weighing about 9 tonnes.
It may have been preyed on by carnivores such as Megalosaurus and Eustreptospondylus.
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