Streptospondylus
"twisted"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Streptospondylus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (161 Mya)
- Place
- France
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Streptospondylus, (Ancient Greek στρεπτός (streptós), meaning “twisted”, and σπόνδυλος (spóndulos), meaning “vertebra”,) is a genus of megalosaurid theropod dinosaur known from the Late Jurassic period of France, 161 million years ago. It was a medium-sized predator with an estimated length of 6 meters (19.5 ft) and a weight of 500 kg (1,100 lbs).
What we know
- Named by von Meyer, 1832.
- Fossils found in France.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Streptospondylus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.