Piveteausaurus divesensis Piveteausaurus
"Jean Piveteau"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Piveteausaurus 11 m (36 ft) long
7 people holding hands
- 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.