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🦴 Known fossil material
Becklespinax is known from only part of its skeleton. This diagram shows which parts of the body have been found.
Parts found as fossils
- Back vertebrae
Known from three back vertebrae with tall spines. Some researchers argue the correct name for these bones is Altispinax.
Coloured areas are parts of the skeleton with fossil bones found so far (sometimes just one bone in that area); faint areas have not been found. The outline is a general shape for its group, not this dinosaur's real body.
Compiled from published descriptions; not yet checked against the original papers by a specialist. Sources: Wikipedia (en): Altispinax
Becklespinax
There is no write-up for this dinosaur yet, but the scientific data below is complete.
Who lived alongside it
Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Becklespinax (Hastings Beds), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.
Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.
Scientific details
- Classification
- Theropod (two-legged predators)
- Family
- Unknown
- When it lived
- 132.6–139.1 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Berriasian – Valanginian
- Named by
- Olshevsky, 1991
- Fossil occurrences
- 1 sites
Countries with fossils
- United Kingdom
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata