Saurophaganax maximus Saurophaganax
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Saurophaganax 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (163–145 Mya)
- Place
- United States
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Allosauridae
Saurophaganax (“lord of lizard-eaters”) is a dubious, chimeric genus of large saurischian dinosaur, possibly a sauropod, from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Morrison Formation of Oklahoma, United States. This taxon was historically considered to represent a species of Allosaurus or very large allosaurid. However, re-examinations of the attributed specimens suggested that it is a chimera of multiple dinosaur genera, since some specimens most likely belong to a diplodocid sauropod, while the other referred specimens could be reassigned to a novel species of Allosaurus.
What we know
- Named by Chure, 1995.
- Fossils found in United States.