Kaatedocus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Diplodocoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Archosauromorpha Cladus: Crurotarsi Divisio: Archosauria Subsectio: Ornithodira Subtaxon: Dinosauromorpha Cladus: Dracohors Superordo: Dinosauria Ordo: Saurischia Subordo: Sauropodomorpha Infraordo: Sauropoda Taxon: Eusauropoda Taxon: Neosauropoda Superfamilia: Diplodocoidea

Familia: †Diplodocidae
Subfamilia: Diplodocinae
Genus: †Kaatedocus
Species: K. siberi

Name

†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

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 .

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