Cruxicheiros
Field photograph to come
Cruxicheiros
DV-0730 · type species Cruxicheiros newmanorum
- Lived
- 168 to 165 million years ago, Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Benson and Radley 2010
Field notes
About Cruxicheiros
Cruxicheiros was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Middle Jurassic, 168 to 165 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Cruxicheiros, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Chipping Norton Limestone Formation. It was named by Benson and Radley in 2010.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
165 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Tetanurae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. B. J. Benson and J. D. Radley. 2010. A new large-bodied theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Warwickshire, United Kingdom. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55(1):35-42