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Sarcosaurus

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DV-0108Blue Lias Fm., United Kingdom

Sarcosaurus

DV-0108 · type species Sarcosaurus woodi

Lived
201 to 193 million years ago, Early Jurassic
Diet
Carnivore
Length
about 3 m (10 ft)
Group
Theropods
Found in
United Kingdom
Named by
Andrews 1921

Field notes

About Sarcosaurus

Sarcosaurus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Jurassic, 201 to 193 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Sarcosaurus, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Blue Lias Formation. It was named by Andrews in 1921.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

2 finds

195 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

To scale

How big was Sarcosaurus?

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Sarcosaurus: about 3 m (10 ft) · Person: 1.8 m (6 ft)Silhouette: typical theropod shape

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Coelophysoidea.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: C. W. Andrews. 1921. On some remains of a theropodous dinosaur from the Lower Lias of Barrow-on-Soar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 9 8:570-576