Stokesosaurus
Field photograph to come
Stokesosaurus
DV-0225 · type species Stokesosaurus clevelandi
- Lived
- 152 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Madsen 1974
Field notes
About Stokesosaurus
Stokesosaurus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 152 to 143 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Stokesosaurus, from Colorado and Utah. Its fossils come from the Morrison Formation. It was named by Madsen in 1974.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
150 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Tyrannosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. H. Madsen. 1974. A new theropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Utah. Journal of Paleontology 48(1):27-31