Marshosaurus bicentesimus
Taxon
Marshosaurus bicentesimus Madsen, 1976
Reconstructed length
~5 m (16 feet)
View
Left lateral
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2010, revised 2020
Clade
- Theropoda
- Tetanurae
- Megalosauroidea
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A megalosauroid theropod from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of the western United States. At 5 m (16 feet) Marshosaurus was a relatively modest-sized predator, though it shared its Morrison habitat with far larger carnivores such as Allosaurus and Torvosaurus.
The evidence
What the specimen actually preserves
