Tanycolagreus
Field photograph to come
Tanycolagreus
DV-0591
- Lived
- 155 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- about 4 m (13 ft)
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Carpenter et al. 2005
Field notes
About Tanycolagreus
Tanycolagreus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 155 to 143 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 3 finds of Tanycolagreus, from Wyoming and Utah. Its fossils come from the Morrison Formation. It was named by Carpenter et al. in 2005.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
150 million years ago
To scale
How big was Tanycolagreus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Coelurosauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: K. Carpenter, C. A. Miles, and K. C. Cloward. 2005. New small theropod from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming. The Carnivorous Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington