Erectopus
Field photograph to come
Erectopus
DV-0113 · type species Erectopus superbus
- Lived
- 126 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Metriacanthosauridae
- Found in
- France and Portugal
- Named by
- Huene 1923
Field notes
About Erectopus
Erectopus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 126 to 101 million years ago. It belongs to the family Metriacanthosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 4 finds of Erectopus, from France and Portugal. Its fossils come from rocks including the La Penthiève Beds Formation and the Papo Seco Formation. It was named by Huene in 1923.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
115 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Metriacanthosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. v. Huene. 1923. Carnivorous Saurischia in Europe since the Triassic. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 34:449-458