Genus
Valid Extinct

Metriacanthosaurus

Walker 1964

Metriacanthosaurus is a genus of metriacanthosaurid dinosaur from the Oxford Clay Formation of England, dating to the Late Jurassic period, about 160 million years ago. It is the only metriacanthosaurid currently named from outside of Asia.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Metriacanthosaurus
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Part of the holotype of Metriacanthosaurus parkeri © Oxford Museum of Natural History and GB3D Type Fossils Database · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Allosauroidea Superfamily
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Metriacanthosauridae Family
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Metriacanthosaurinae Subfamily
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Metriacanthosaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1
Geological formations
Oxford Clay
1
Temporal distribution
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Metriacanthosaurus parkeri 162 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
A. D. Walker. 1964. Triassic reptiles from the Elgin area: Ornithosuchus and the origin of carnosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 248:53-134
Bibliography (1)
F. v. Huene. 1923. Carnivorous Saurischia in Europe since the Triassic. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 34:449-458