| Kaatedocus Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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| Mounted skeleton cast, Museum of Natural Sciences of Belgium in Brussels. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Superfamily: | †Diplodocoidea |
| Clade: | †Flagellicaudata |
| Genus: | †Kaatedocus Tschopp & Mateus, 2012 |
| Type species | |
| †Kaatedocus siberi Tschopp & Mateus, 2012
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Kaatedocus is a genus of flagellicaudatan sauropod known from the middle Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian stage) of northern Wyoming, United States. It is known from well-preserved skull and cervical vertebrae which were collected in the lower part of the Morrison Formation. The type and only species is Kaatedocus siberi, described in 2012 by Emanuel Tschopp and Octávio Mateus.[1]
- ^ 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" (PDF). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 11: 1. doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.746589. hdl:2318/1525401.