Sarcosaurus woodi
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Sarcosaurus 3.5 m (11.5 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 3.5 m (11.5 ft)
- Period
- Early Jurassic (200–194 Mya)
- Place
- United Kingdom
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Sarcosaurus () is a genus of basal neotheropod dinosaur, roughly 3.5 m long. It lived in what is now England and maybe Ireland and Scotland during the Hettangian-Sinemurian stages of the Early Jurassic, about 199-196 million years ago. Sarcosaurus is one of the earliest known Jurassic theropods, and one of only a handful of theropod genera from this time period. Along with Dracoraptor hanigani it is one of the two described neotheropods from the lowermost Jurassic of the United Kingdom.
What we know
- Named by Andrews, 1921.
- Body length estimated at about 3.5 m.
- Fossils found in United Kingdom.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Sarcosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.