Dinosaur
Eustreptospondylus
It was a bipedal carnivore with strong hind legs and relatively small arms.
Eustreptospondylus lived in a Europe with numerous islands, coasts and shallow seas.
Three stages. One companion.
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AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Eustreptospondylus at a glance
- Diet
- Carnivore
- It is interpreted as a consumer of other animals. Hunting and scavenging are not mutually exclusive behaviors.
- When it lived
- Jurassic
- Group
- Megalosauridae
- Megalosaurids
- Fossil locations
- England
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Eustreptospondylus
It was a megalosaurid that lived when Europe was divided into many islands. Fossils from southern England reflect that ancient landscape of coasts and shallow seas.
It was a two-legged meat eater with strong hind legs and relatively small arms. Picturing its ancient landscape helps separate that world from today’s map of England. The rocks around its fossils provide the context needed to reconstruct it.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.A note on the science
It was a two-legged meat eater with strong hind legs and relatively small arms. Picturing its ancient landscape helps separate that world from today’s map of England. The rocks around its fossils provide the context needed to reconstruct it.
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- Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis
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- Eustreptospondylus
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- Megalosauridae
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- Living birds
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