Dracoraptor
Field photograph to come
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
200 million years ago
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