Eotyrannus
Field photograph to come
Eotyrannus
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- Lived
- 133 to 121 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- about 5 m (16 ft)
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Hutt et al. 2001
Field notes
About Eotyrannus
Eotyrannus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 133 to 121 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Eotyrannus, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Wessex Formation. It was named by Hutt et al. in 2001.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
125 million years ago
To scale
How big was Eotyrannus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Tyrannosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. Hutt, D. Naish, and D. M. Martill, M. J. Barker, P. Newbery. 2001. A preliminary account of a new tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous) of southern England. Cretaceous Research 22:227-242