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Megalosauridae

Piveteausaurus divesensis

"Jean Piveteau"

Generic theropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Piveteausaurus 11 m (36 ft) long
as long as 7 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic theropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Piveteausaurus
Length
11 m (36 ft)
Period
Middle Jurassic (164.7–161.2 Mya)
Place
France
Food
Carnivore
Clade
Megalosauridae

Piveteausaurus (meaning “Jean Piveteau’s lizard”) is a genus of theropod dinosaur known from a partial skull discovered in the Middle Jurassic (164.7 to 161.2 million years ago) Marnes de Dives of Calvados, northern France. In 2012, Thomas Holtz gave a possible length of 11 m.

What we know

  • Named by (Walker, 1964 [originally Eustreptospondylus]).
  • Body length estimated at about 11 m.
  • Fossils found in France.

What we guess

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