Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus Alpkarakush

"Etymology TBD"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Alpkarakush 8 m (26.2 ft) long
5 people holding hands
Length
8 m (26.2 ft)
Period
Middle Jurassic (174–163 Mya)
Place
Unknown locality
Food
Carnivore
Clade
Metriacanthosauridae

Alpkarakush is an extinct genus of metriacanthosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Jurassic Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan. The genus contains a single species, A. kyrgyzicus, known from a partial skeleton.

What we know

  • Named by Rauhut et al., 2024.
  • Body length estimated at about 8 m.