Dracoraptor hanigani

"dragon thief"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall

Dracoraptor 7 m (23 ft) long

as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip

Length: 7 m (23 ft)
Period: Early Jurassic (201–174 Mya)
Place: United Kingdom
Food: Carnivore
Clade: Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.

Dracoraptor reconstruction by Artwork by Bob Nichol.s (paleocreations.com). Published by David M. Martill, Ste — Reconstruction · Artwork by Bob Nichol.s (paleocreations.com). Published by David M. Martill, Ste (CC-BY)

Dracoraptor (meaning “dragon thief”) is a genus of coelophysoid dinosaur that lived during the Hettangian stage of the Early Jurassic Period of what is now Wales dated at about 201 million years ago. The fossil was first discovered in 2014 by Rob and Nick Hanigan and Sam Davies at the Blue Lias Formation on the South Wales coast. The genus name Dracoraptor is from Draco, referring to the Welsh dragon, and raptor, meaning robber, a commonly employed suffix for theropod dinosaurs, with the type species being Dracoraptor hanigani. It is one of the oldest known Jurassic dinosaurs and is the first dinosaur skeleton from the Jurassic of Wales.

What we know

Named by Martill et al., 2016.
Body length estimated at about 7 m.
Fossils found in United Kingdom.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Dracoraptor — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.