Outline: a typical theropod
Stokesosaurus
"Stokes's lizard"
Type species Stokesosaurus clevelandi
- Lived
- 152 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Madsen 1974
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
150 million years ago
Field notes
About Stokesosaurus
What it was like
Stokesosaurus was a small, early relative of Tyrannosaurus, known mostly from hip bones. It ran on two legs and was far smaller than its later relatives.
Its world
It lived in the Late Jurassic, in what are now Colorado and Utah. Its fossils come from the Morrison Formation, where it lived in the shadow of bigger hunters such as Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus, among giant plant eaters like Diplodocus and Stegosaurus.
How it was found
Madsen named Stokesosaurus in 1974. The type species is Stokesosaurus clevelandi. Two finds are known.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Tyrannosauroidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J. H. Madsen. 1974. A new theropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Utah. Journal of Paleontology 48(1):27-31