Describer

Owen, 1875

Time

Jurassic Middle Jurassic Late Bathonian Callovian Oxfordian Kimmeridgian

Classification

Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Brachiosauridae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

England Madagascar

Typespecies

Bothriospondylus suffosus

Length

20 meter

Info

Genus

Bothriospondylus (Owen, 1875) = ?Marmarospondylus (Owen, 1875) Bothriospondylus > Bothriospondylus suffosus (Owen, 1875) Bothriospondylus > Bothriospondylus robustus (Owen, 1875) >> Marmarospondylus robustus (Owen, 1875) Bothriospondylus > Bothriospondylus madagascariensis (Lydekker, 1895) [?(Sauropod indet (Lapparent, 1943) = Bothriospondylus madagascariensis) LN=NN ]

Named for \\\"the flattened form and lateral cavities characteristic of the sacral vertebrae. The type species, B.suffosus, was founded on four caudal dorsal and three uncoossified sacral centra of a juvenile sauropod from the Upper Jurassic of England. The dorsal centra are gently opisthocoelous, but the cranial end is almost flat, lacking the greater convexity of Brachiosaurus.