Dinodocus
Extinct genus of dinosaurs
title: "Dinodocus" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["sauropoda", "dinosaur-genera", "barremian-dinosaurs", "taxa-named-by-richard-owen", "fossil-taxa-described-in-1884", "dinosaurs-of-the-united-kingdom"] description: "Extinct genus of dinosaurs" topic_path: "geography/united-kingdom" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinodocus" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Extinct genus of dinosaurs ::
|name = Dinodocus |fossil_range = Early Cretaceous, | image = Dinodocus mackesoni humerus.jpg | image_caption = Humerus of the holotype |parent_authority = Owen, 1884 |taxon = Dinodocus mackesoni |authority = Owen, 1884 | display_parents = 2 | synonyms =
- Pelorosaurus mackesoni Woodward, 1908
Dinodocus (meaning "terrible beam") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur, named by Richard Owen in 1884, with the type species, Dinodocus mackesoni. The name is now usually considered a nomen dubium. The name was given to some fossil bones from the Lower Greensand Group (Lower Cretaceous) of Hythe, Kent, England, were formerly placed in the genus Pelorosaurus (Mantell, 1850
Discovery and naming
The holotype was discovered in 1840 by Mr H. B. Mackeson. In 1841, Richard Owen noted on the fossils. In 1850, Gideon Mantell assigned the specimen to Pelorosaurus but Richard Owen placed the fossils in a separate genus, Dinodocus, in 1884. In 1908, Dinodocus was synonymized with Pelorosaurus again, this time by Arthur Smith Woodward. In 2004, Paul Upchurch and colleagues considered Dinodocus a nomen dubium based on indeterminate sauropod material.
References
References
- ), but a review by Upchurch et al. (2004) concluded that ''Dinodocus'' is a ''[[nomen dubium]]''.Upchurch, P., Barrett, P.M. and Dodson, P. 2004. Sauropoda. In The Dinosauria, 2nd edition. D. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmólska (eds.). University of California Press, Berkeley. Pp. 259–322.
- The holotype, NHMUK 14695, was listed by Owen as "''portions of the corocoid, humerus and ulna, iliac, ischial and pubic bones, a large portion of the shaft of a femur, parts of a tibia and fibula, and several metatarsal bones''". Owen assigned the specimen to the [[pliosauridae
- "Fossilworks: Pelorosaurus".
- Woodward A S (May 1908) "Note on Dinodocus mackesoni, a cetiosaurian from the Lower Greensand of Kent". Geological Magazine 5(5): 204-206.
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