Sarcosaurus
Sarcosaurus woodi
Sarcosaurus (Latin: "flesh lizard") is a genus of basal neotheropod dinosaur, roughly 3.5 metres (11 ft) long. It lived in what is now England and maybe Ireland and Scotland during the Hettangian-Sinemurian stages of the Early Jurassic, about 199-196 million years ago. Sarcosaurus is one of the earliest known Jurassic theropods, and one of only a handful of theropod genera from this time period. Along with Dracoraptor hanigani it is one of the two described neotheropods from the lowermost Jurassic of the United Kingdom.
- Family
- Ceratosauria
- Order
- Saurischia
- Period
- Jurassic (199.0–195.0 Ma)
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- 3.0–4.0 m
- Weight
- 100–200 kg
- Type locality
- Lower Lias, Leicestershire, England
- Holotype
- NHMUK PV R3542
- PBDB
- txn:55544