Eustreptospondylus

Walker 1964

Eustreptospondylus, from, is an extinct genus of megalosaurid theropod dinosaur, from the Callovian and Oxfordian stages of the Jurassic period in southern England, at a time when Europe was a series of scattered islands.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial

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Eustreptospondylus skeleton © Original uploader was Ballista at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 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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Megalosauroidea Superfamily

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Megalosauridae Family

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Eustreptospondylinae Subfamily

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Eustreptospondylus Genus

Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Geological formations

Oxford Clay

Temporal distribution

Callovian (165.3–161.5 Ma)

Species (1)

Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis 165 Ma

Images 2

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

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