Sarcolestes
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Sarcolestes
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- Lived
- 165 to 162 million years ago, Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Lydekker 1893
Field notes
About Sarcolestes
Sarcolestes was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Middle Jurassic, 165 to 162 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Sarcolestes, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Oxford Clay Formation. It was named by Lydekker in 1893.
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 Ankylosauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. Lydekker. 1893. On the jaw of a new carnivorous dinosaur from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 49:284-287