Altispinax altih-SPEYENAKS
"with high spines"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Altispinax 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (140–133 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · United Kingdom
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Altispinax (; “with high spines”) is a genus of large predatory theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period (Berriasian - Valanginian, 140 to 133 million years ago) of what is now the Wadhurst Clay Formation of East Sussex, England.
What we know
- Named by von Huene, 1923.
- Fossils found in Asia and United Kingdom.