Sauropus
Field photograph to come
Sauropus
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- Lived
- 227 to 206 million years ago, Late Triassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Sauropodidae
- Named by
- Hitchcock 1845
Field notes
About Sauropus
Sauropus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Triassic, 227 to 206 million years ago. It belongs to the family Sauropodidae.
It was named by Hitchcock in 1845.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
No finds with map coordinates are recorded yet.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: E. Hitchcock. 1845. An attempt to name, classify, and describe, the animals that made the fossil footmarks of New England. Sixth Annual Meeeting of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, New Haven, CT. Abstract and Proceedings