Spinostropheus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Spinostropheus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (167–164 Mya)
- Place
- Niger
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Spinostropheus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in the Middle Jurassic period and has been found in the Tiourarén Formation, Niger. The type and only species is S. gautieri.
What we know
- Named by Sereno et al., 2004.
- Fossils found in Niger.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Spinostropheus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.