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Metriacanthosaurus
Metriacanthosaurid theropod dinosaur genus from Middle Jurassic period / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Metriacanthosaurus (meaning "moderately-spined lizard") is a genus of metriacanthosaurid dinosaur from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation and Oxford Clay Formation of England, dating to the Late Jurassic period, about 160 million years ago (lower Oxfordian).
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Part of the holotype of Metriacanthosaurus parkeri (individual fossils not to scale) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Metriacanthosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Metriacanthosaurinae |
Genus: | †Metriacanthosaurus Walker, 1964 |
Type species | |
†Megalosaurus parkeri von Huene, 1923 | |
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