Erectopus superbus Erectopus
"upright foot"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Erectopus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- France
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Metriacanthosauridae
Erectopus (meaning “upright foot”) is an extinct genus of basal allosauroid theropod from the Early Cretaceous La Penthiève Beds Formation of France and also possibly the Cernavodă Formation of southern Romania. The type species is E. superbus, which was initially known as a species of Megalosaurus.
What we know
- Named by (Sauvage, 1882) [originally Megalosaurus].
- Fossils found in France.