Subfamily
Valid Extinct

Metriacanthosaurinae

Paul 1988

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
4
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Metriacanthosaurinae
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Allosauroidea Superfamily
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Metriacanthosauridae Family
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Metriacanthosaurinae Subfamily
Fossil sites 4 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
2
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1
🇹🇭 Thailand
1
Geological formations
Shaximiao
1
Shishugou
1
Oxford Clay
1
Sao Khua
1
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
2
Callovian (165.3–161.5 Ma)
1
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
G. S. Paul. 1988. Predatory Dinosaurs of the World. Simon & Schuster, New York
Bibliography (4)
E. Buffetaut, V. Suteethorn, and H. Tong. 1996. The earliest known tyrannosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand. Nature 381:689-691 DOI ↗
P. J. Currie and X.-J. Zhao. 1994. A new carnosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Jurassic of Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30(10-11):2037-2081 DOI ↗
Y. Gao. 1992. Yangchuanosaurus hepingensis – a new species of carnosaur from Zigong, Sichuan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 30(4):313-324
F. v. Huene. 1923. Carnivorous Saurischia in Europe since the Triassic. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 34:449-458