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Metriacanthosaurus
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Metriacanthosaurus is known only from a partial postcranial skeleton, so reconstructions are guesswork based on similar dinosaurs.
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- Pronounced
- met-ree-a-kan-tho-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- moderately-spined lizard
- Length
- 8.2m
- Diet
- carnivorous
- When it lived
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Late Jurassic
(159 - 154 million years ago) - Found in
- England, United Kingdom
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Neotherapoda, Tetanurae, Metriacanthosaurus
- Named by
- Walker (1964)
- Type species
- parkeri