Metriacanthosaurus
Metriacanthosaurus parkeri
Pronounced: Met - ree - uh - Can - tho - Sore - us
Diet: carnivore(meat-eater)
Name Means: Medium Spine Lizard
Length: 26 ft.(8 meters)
Height: 9 ft.(3 meters)
Weight: 2 tons (1,800 kilos)
Time: Late Jurassic - 157 million years ago
Fossil remains for this Dinosaur
have been found in Europe
Metriacanthosaurus
was a
fairly
large
meat-eater
that
lived in
Northern
Europe
near the
end of
the
Jurassic
Period.
This
carnivore
was
fairly
typical
of
Jurassic
theropods.
It had
long
neural
spines,
but they
were not
significantly
longer
than
those
found on
Allosaurus
At one time Metriacanthosaurus was thought to be the same as Megalosaurus but later studies showed that it was different enough to give it a new name. It actually took nearly forty years to distinguish Metriacanthosaurus from Megalosaurus. |
