Aristosuchus pusillus Aristosuchus
"bravest, best, noblest"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Aristosuchus 2 m (6.6 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 2 m (6.6 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- United Kingdom · Egypt
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Compsognathidae
Aristosuchus (from the Ancient Greek ἄριστος, meaning “bravest, best, noblest”, and σουχος, the Ancient Greek corruption of the name of the Egyptian crocodile-headed god Sobek) is a genus of small coelurosaurian dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous period (Barremian stage, sometime between 130 and 123 million years ago) of what is now England, UK. The type and only species is Aristosuchus pusillus, originally referred to the carnosaurian genus Poekilopleuron.
What we know
- Named by (Owen, 1876).
- Body length estimated at about 2 m.
- Fossils found in United Kingdom and Egypt.