Stokesosaurus
Stokesosaurus clevelandi
Pronounced:
Stoke
- so
-
Saw
-
rus
Diet:
Carnivore
(Meat-Eater)
Name
Means:
"Stokes
Lizard"
Length:
13
feet
(4
m)
Height:
5
feet
(2.5
m)
Weight:
Unknown
Time:
Jurassic/Cretaceous
-
150/145
MYA
Fossil
remains for
this
Dinosaur
have been
found in
Northern
North
America
Stokesosaurus may have been the first member of the family that included T. rex. Very few bones of this dinosaur have been found and they don't seem to match up with the other meat-eating dinosaurs that lived at the same time and place. It lived with the much larger Allosaurus and would have had to compete with it for food.
Known
only
from a
few
bones,
this
dinosaur
provides
tantalizing
clues to
the
possible
evolution
of the
tyrannosaur
lineage.
Discovered
in the
famous
Cleveland-Lloyd
quarry,
scientists
hope to
find
more of
this
creature
among
the many
thousands
of
fossils
discovered
this
bone
bed.
Until
the
discovery
of a
braincase,
it was
thought
that
Stokesosaurus
might
have
belonged
to the
ceratosaurs. |
