Species
Valid Extinct

Megalosaurus bucklandii

Mantell 1827

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
10
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
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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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Megalosaurinae Subfamily
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Megalosaurus Genus
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Megalosaurus bucklandii Species
Fossil sites 10 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
10
Geological formations
Sharp's Hill
1
Forest Marble
1
Cotswold Slate
1
Taynton Limestone
1
Stanford
1
Coral Rag
1
Hastings Beds
1
Woburn Sand
1
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Valanginian (137.05–132.6 Ma)
1
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
2
Bathonian (168.2–165.3 Ma)
4
Bajocian (170.9–168.2 Ma)
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 (5)
M. J. Benton and P. S. Spencer. 1995. Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain. Chapman & Hall, London DOI ↗
R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London DOI ↗
R. Owen. 1857. Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Part III. Dinosauria (Megalosaurus). [Wealden]. The Palaeontographical Society, London 9:1-26
R. Owen. 1854. Descriptive catalogue of the Fossil organic remains of Reptilia and Pisces contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London
R. Owen. 1842. Report on British fossil reptiles, part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 11:60-204