What is Eustreptospondylus?
Q: What is Eustreptospondylus?
A: Eustreptospondylus is a type of dinosaur that was a megalosaurid tetanuran theropod (a large, bipedal meat-eater) that lived during the mid-Jurassic period, about 165 million years ago.
Q: What does the name Eustreptospondylus mean?
A: Eustreptospondylus means "well-reversed vertebrae."
Q: How long was Eustreptospondylus?
A: Eustreptospondylus was about 23-30 ft (7-9 m) long.
Q: How much did Eustreptospondylus weigh?
A: Eustreptospondylus weighed about 440-550 pounds (200 kg to 250 kg).
Q: What were some physical features of Eustreptospondylus?
A: Eustreptospondylus had a large head, long, sharp serrated teeth, short arms and a primitive hip structure.
Q: Where have fossils of Eustreptospondylus been found?
A: Incomplete fossils of Eustreptospondylus have been found in England.
Q: Who named Eustreptospondylus and its type species?
A: Eustreptospondylus was named by Richard Owen in 1841, and its type species is E. oxoniensis, which was named by C. A. Walker in 1964.
