What is Metriacanthosaurus?
Q: What is Metriacanthosaurus?
A: Metriacanthosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in Europe during the Middle Jurassic period.
Q: What does its name mean?
A: Its name means "Moderate-spined lizard" because its back vertebrae are taller than some meat-eating dinosaurs but shorter than others.
Q: What kind of dinosaur was Metriacanthosaurus?
A: Metriacanthosaurus was a meat-eating dinosaur.
Q: How many fingers did it have on each hand?
A: It had three fingers on each hand.
Q: What were at the end of its fingers?
A: Each finger ended in a sharp, hook-like claw that was used to grab prey before giving the killing bite with its jaws.
Q: What did it probably prey on?
A: It probably preyed on large, long-necked sauropods, such as Pelorosaurus, that lived in the same time and place as it.
Q: What family does it belong to?
A: It belongs to its own family, the Metriacanthosauridae.
