Outline: a typical theropod
Juratyrant
"Jurassic tyrant"
- Lived
- 145 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Brusatte and Benson 2013
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
145 million years ago
Field notes
About Juratyrant
What it was like
Juratyrant was an early relative of the tyrannosaurs, a medium-sized, two-legged hunter. It is known from part of the hips, legs and backbone.
It was much smaller than the giant tyrannosaurs that came tens of millions of years later.
Its world
It lived at the end of the Jurassic in what is now southern England. Its bones come from the Kimmeridge Clay, rocks laid down in a shallow sea, which have also produced the stegosaur Dacentrurus and the plant eater Cumnoria.
How it was found
Its bones were first described as a species of Stokesosaurus. Brusatte and Benson gave them their own genus in 2013.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Tyrannosauroidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. L. Brusatte and R. B. J. Benson. 2013. The systematics of Late Jurassic tyrannosauroid theropods from Europe and North America. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58(1):47-54