Genus
Valid Extinct

Piveteausaurus

Taquet and Welles 1977

Piveteausaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur known from a partial skull discovered in the Middle Jurassic Marnes de Dives of Calvados, northern France. In 2012, Thomas Holtz gave a possible length of 11 metres (36 ft).

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Piveteausaurus
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Piveteausuaurus, a large theropod dinosaur © Ghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
Piveteausaurus
Piveteausaurus
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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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Piveteausaurus Genus
Measurements
Length
5,5 m ⓘ
Piveteausaurus divesensis  
Mass
420 kg ⓘ
Piveteausaurus divesensis  
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇫🇷 France
3
Geological formations
Marnes de Dives
3
Temporal distribution
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Callovian (165.3–161.5 Ma)
2
Species (1)
Piveteausaurus divesensis 165 Ma
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
P. Taquet and S. P. Welles. 1977. Redescription du crâne de dinosaure théropode de Dives (Normandie) [Redescription of a theropod dinosaur skull from Dives (Normandy)]. Annales de Paléontologie (Vertébrés) 63(2):191-206
Bibliography (2)
M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300 DOI ↗
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