Outline: a typical theropod
Genusaurus
JEN-yoo-SORE-us
"knee lizard"
Type species Genusaurus sisteronis
- Lived
- 110 to 106 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Abelisauridae
- Found in
- France
- Named by
- Accarie et al. 1995
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
110 million years ago
Field notes
About Genusaurus
What it was like
Genusaurus was a medium-sized two-legged predator related to the abelisaurids. It is known from parts of the hips, legs and backbone. Its name refers to a large ridge on its shin bone near the knee.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now France. Its bones come from the Marnes bleues, rocks laid down in the sea.
How it was found
Accarie and colleagues named it in 1995 from one find. The type species is Genusaurus sisteronis.
Close relatives
Other members of Abelisauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: H. Accarie, B. Beaudoin, and J. Dejax, G. Friès, J.-G. Michard, P. Taquet. 1995. Découverte d'un Dinosaure théropode nouveau (Genusaurus sisteronis n. g., n. sp.) dans l'Albien marin de Sisteron (Alpes de Haute-Provence, France) et extension au Crétacé inférieur de la lignée cératosaurienne [Discovery of a new theropod dinosaur (Genusaurus sisteronis n. g., n. sp.) in the marine Albian of Sisteron (Alpes de Haute-Provence, France) and extension of the ceratosaur lineage into the Lower Cretaceous]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, série IIa 320:327-344