Merosaurus
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Dornraptor (meaning "Dorset robber or thief") is an extinct genus of averostran theropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic (Late Sinemurian) of Charmouth, Dorset, England. The genus contains a single species, D. normani, known from a fragmentary knee joint and femur that were initially described by Sir Richard Owen as belonging to the early armored dinosaur Scelidosaurus. Dornraptor lived in what is now England, along other theropods like Dracoraptor and Sarcosaurus.
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- Parent taxon
- Averostra
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- Dornraptor normani.png
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- Dornraptor
- taxon name
- Dornraptor
- taxon rank
- genus
- time period
- Early Jurassic
- location of discovery
- England
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Dornraptor (meaning "Dorset robber or thief") is an extinct genus of averostran theropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic (Late Sinemurian) of Charmouth, Dorset, England. The genus contains a single species, D. normani, known from a fragmentary knee joint and femur that were initially described by Sir Richard Owen as belonging to the early armored dinosaur Scelidosaurus. Dornraptor lived in what is now England, along other theropods like Dracoraptor and Sarcosaurus.
Dornraptor was described as having come from the Blue Lias Formation in 2024, although previous authors proposed a corrected locality of the Charmouth Mudstone Formation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Merosaurus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.