Kaatedocus
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Taxonavigation
[edit]Familia: †Diplodocidae
Subfamilia: Diplodocinae
Genus: †Kaatedocus
Species:
K. siberi
Name
[edit]- †Kaatedocus Tschopp & Mateus, 2012
- Type species: Kaatedocus siberi Tschopp & Mateus, 2012
- Etymology: ‘Kaate’ means small in the Crow (Absaroka) language, one of the Native American tribes of northern Wyoming. ‘Docus’ is an allusion to Diplodocus and the Greek dokos/δoκoς ‘beam’.
References
[edit]- Tschopp, E.; Mateus, O.V., 2012: The skull and neck of a new flagellicaudatan sauropod from the Morrison Formation and its implication for the evolution and ontogeny of diplodocid dinosaurs. Journal of systematic palaeontology, iFirst 1-36. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2012.746589.