Outline: a typical theropod
Aristosuchus
Type species Aristosuchus pusillus
- Lived
- 126 to 120 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Compsognathidae
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Seeley 1887
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
125 million years ago
Field notes
About Aristosuchus
What it was like
Aristosuchus was a small theropod known from a hip bone, some backbones and a claw. It was probably a light, fast hunter of small animals, and it has been compared with Compsognathus.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now England.
How it was found
Seeley named Aristosuchus in 1887. The type species is Aristosuchus pusillus.
Close relatives
Other members of Compsognathidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: H. G. Seeley. 1887. On Aristosuchus pusillus (Owen), being further notes on the fossils described by Sir R. Owen as Poikilopleuron pusillus, Owen. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 43:221-228