Eustreptospondylus yoo-streptoʊ-spon-DEYELUHS
"well"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Eustreptospondylus 6 m (19.7 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 6 m (19.7 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (166–154 Mya)
- Place
- Europe · United Kingdom
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Megalosauridae
Eustreptospondylus ( ;), from (Ancient Greek εὖ (eû), meaning “well”, στρεπτός (streptós), meaning “twisted”, and σπόνδυλος (spóndulos), meaning “vertebra”), is an extinct genus of megalosaurid theropod dinosaur, from the Callovian and Oxfordian stages of the Jurassic period (some time between 166 and 154 million years ago) in southern England, at a time when Europe was a series of scattered islands (due to tectonic movement at the time which raised the sea-bed and flooded the lowland).
What we know
- Named by Walker, 1964.
- Body length estimated at about 6 m.
- Fossils found in Europe and United Kingdom.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Eustreptospondylus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.