TheropodaMegalosauridae

Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis

Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis skeletal reconstruction, left lateral view, reconstructed length ~4.5 m.
Scale bar = 50 centimeters
Taxon
Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis Walker, 1964
Reconstructed length
~4.5 m (15 feet)
View
Left lateral
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2019, revised 2020
Clade
  1. Theropoda
  2. Tetanurae
  3. Megalosauroidea
  4. Megalosauridae

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Eustreptospondylus is a medium-sized megalosaurid theropod that lived during the Late Jurassic of England. It’s known from a single, largely complete juvenile skeleton found in marine deposits near Oxford. Eustreptospondylus was found near the Jurassic archipelago (a series of islands that covered much of Europe at the time), so it may have swum between islands, potentially eating small dinosaurs, pterosaurs, lizards, and potentially beach-combing for fish and marine invertebrates washed ashore or in tide pools.