Eustreptospondylus

Eustreptospondylus
Life picture of Eustreptospondylus
Temporal occurrence
Middle Jurassic ( Callovium )
166.1 to 163.5 million years
Locations
Great Britain ( Oxfordshire , Buckinghamshire )
Systematics
Lizard dinosaur (Saurischia) Theropoda Tetanurae Megalosauridae Eustreptospondylinae Eustreptospondylus
Scientific name
Eustreptospondylus
Walker , 1964
Art
Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis

Eustreptospondylus ("well curved vertebra") was a genus of theropod dinosaur within the Megalosauridae . The animal, up to about seven meters long, lived in what is now England at the time of the Middle Jurassic ("Dogger"). A complete skeleton was found near Oxford , making Eustreptospondylus the best-preserved theropod find in Europe.

For a long time its remains, like those of many other European theropods of the Jurassic period, were assigned to the genus Megalosaurus . A revision was made by Alick Walker , who set up an independent genus due to anatomical differences. The name Streptospondylus, which was used earlier for the remains of this animal , had already been assigned to another genus, which was originally regarded as a crocodile, but whose species probably belong to various other taxa. Hence the name Eustreptospondylus was chosen.

Web links

Commons : Eustreptospondylus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Incomplete skeleton of Eustreptospondylus

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gregory S. Paul : The Princeton Field Guide To Dinosaurs. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-13720-9 , p. 180