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.[1]
^Ezcurra, M. D.; Butler, R. J.; Maidment, S. C. R.; Sansom, I. J.; Meade, L. E.; Radley, J. D. (2020). "A revision of the early neotheropod genus Sarcosaurus from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian–Sinemurian) of central England". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 191: 113–149. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa054. hdl:11336/160038.
weight of 140 kg. The fossils of Sarcosaurus were found in the Lower Lias of England. The type species, Sarcosaurus woodi, was first described by Charles...
lived in what is now England, along other theropods like Dracoraptor and Sarcosaurus. Dornraptor was described as having come from the Blue Lias Formation...
dubium) = Sarcosaurus andrewsi Huene, 1932 = Megalosaurus woodwardi (Huene, 1932) The type species of Eustreptospondylus, Megalosaurus and Sarcosaurus are also...
known from the formation. As is the holotype specimen of the dinosaur Sarcosaurus. List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in England Cropwell plesiosaur...
Megalosaurus. Michael Waldman in 1974 renamed Sarcosaurus andrewsi Huene 1932 into Megalosaurus andrewsi. Indeed, Sarcosaurus andrewsi is today by some scientists...
Jonathan D (2021-01-01). "A revision of the early neotheropod genus Sarcosaurus from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian–Sinemurian) of central England"....
Barilium. "Liassaurus huenei": Could potentially be a second specimen of Sarcosaurus. Mantellodon carpenteri: Known from a single specimen from Maidstone...
Jonathan D (1 January 2021). "A revision of the early neotheropod genus Sarcosaurus from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian–Sinemurian) of central England"....
Liaoningotitan Liaoningvenator "Liassaurus" – nomen nudum; possible synonym of Sarcosaurus Libycosaurus – subsequently found to be an anthracothere mammal Ligabueino...
on the description relocated it on the Charmouth Mudstone Formation. Sarcosaurus S. woodi Wilmcote angulata zone, late Hettangian (NHMUK PV R3542) Rugby...
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