Altispinax altih-SPEYENAKS
"with high spines"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Altispinax 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (140–133 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · United Kingdom
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Altispinax — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.