Outline: a typical theropod
Proceratosaurus
PRO-seh-RAT-oh-SORE-us
"before Ceratosaurus"
- Lived
- 168 to 165 million years ago, Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- estimates range from 3 to 4.1 m (10 to 13 ft)
- Group
- Theropods, Proceratosauridae
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Huene 1926
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
165 million years ago
Field notes
About Proceratosaurus
What it was like
Proceratosaurus was a small meat eater between 3 and 4.1 meters (10 to 13 feet) long, known from a single skull. It had a thin crest on its snout, which is why it was first thought to be related to Ceratosaurus.
It is now known to be an early relative of Tyrannosaurus, part of a group of crested hunters that includes Guanlong from China.
Its world
It lived in the Middle Jurassic, about 168 to 165 million years ago, in what is now England. Its skull comes from the White Limestone, rock formed in warm, shallow seas around low islands.
How it was found
Huene named Proceratosaurus in 1926. The skull had been found years earlier and first placed in Megalosaurus.
Close relatives
Other members of Proceratosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: F. v. Huene. 1926. On several known and unknown reptiles of the order Saurischia from England and France. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 9 17:473-489