Genus
Valid Extinct

Eustreptospondylus

Walker 1964
Etymology Reptile aux vertèbres bien tournées

Eustreptospondylus, from, is an extinct genus of megalosaurid theropod dinosaur, from the Callovian and Oxfordian stages of the Jurassic period in southern England, at a time when Europe was a series of scattered islands.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Eustreptospondylus
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Eustreptospondylus skeleton © Original uploader was Ballista at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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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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Megalosauroidea Superfamily
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Megalosauridae Family
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Eustreptospondylinae Subfamily
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Eustreptospondylus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1
Geological formations
Oxford Clay
1
Temporal distribution
Callovian (165.3–161.5 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis 165 Ma
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
A. D. Walker. 1964. Triassic reptiles from the Elgin area: Ornithosuchus and the origin of carnosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 248:53-134
Bibliography (1)
A. D. Walker. 1964. Triassic reptiles from the Elgin area: Ornithosuchus and the origin of carnosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 248:53-134