Sarcolestes
"flesh"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Sarcolestes 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (165 Mya)
- Place
- United Kingdom
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Sarcolestes (from Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx), meaning “flesh”, and λῃστής (lēistḗs), meaning “robber”, and thus, “flesh robber”) is an extinct genus of ankylosaurian ornithischian dinosaur from the Oxford Clay of England. The current type and only species is S. leedsi, and the holotype is a single partial left mandible. The genus and species were named in 1893 by Richard Lydekker, who thought they belonged to a theropod.
What we know
- Named by Lydekker, 1893.
- Fossils found in United Kingdom.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Sarcolestes — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.