Dracoraptor

Field photograph to come

DV-0948Blue Lias Fm., United Kingdom

Dracoraptor

DV-0948 · type species Dracoraptor hanigani

Lived
201 to 200 million years ago, Early Jurassic
Diet
Carnivore
Group
Theropods
Found in
United Kingdom
Named by
Martill et al. 2016

Field notes

About Dracoraptor

Dracoraptor was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Jurassic, 201 to 200 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Dracoraptor, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Blue Lias Formation. It was named by Martill et al. in 2016.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

200 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Coelophysoidea.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: D. M. Martill, S. U. Vidovic, and C. Howells, J. R. Nudds. 2016. The oldest Jurassic dinosaur: a basal neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain. PLoS ONE 11(1):e0145713:1-38