Sarcosaurus
| Sarcosaurus | |
|---|---|
| Skeletons of the known specimens of Sarcosaurus woodi (restored as a ceratosaur) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Neotheropoda |
| Genus: | †Sarcosaurus Andrews, 1921 |
| Type species | |
| †Sarcosaurus woodi Andrews, 1921 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Sarcosaurus (Latin: "flesh lizard") is a genus of basal neotheropod dinosaur, roughly 3.5 metres (11 ft) long. It lived in what is now England and maybe Ireland and Scotland during the Hettangian-Sinemurian stages of the Early Jurassic, about 199-196 million years ago. Sarcosaurus is one of the earliest known Jurassic theropods, and one of only a handful of theropod genera from this time period. Along with Dracoraptor hanigani it is one of the two described neotheropods from the lowermost Jurassic of the United Kingdom.