Image by Richard Lydekker (July 25, 1849 - April 16, 1915) · Public domain · View on Wikimedia Commons
🦴 Known fossil material
Sarcolestes is known from only part of its skeleton. This diagram shows which parts of the body have been found.
Parts found as fossils
- Lower jaw
- Teeth
Known from part of a left lower jaw holding one tooth and two tooth tips, with a bony skin plate fused to it (the body armour is not highlighted). First thought to be a meat-eater, it is now considered an early armoured dinosaur, though some doubt it is a valid genus.
Note: this genus, or which bones belong to it, is still debated.
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): Sarcolestes
Sarcolestes
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 Sarcolestes (Oxford Clay), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.
Callovosaurus
Cetiosauriscus
Eustreptospondylus
Metriacanthosaurus
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
- Ornithischian (bird-hipped)
- Family
- Unknown
- When it lived
- 161.5–165.3 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Callovian
- Named by
- Lydekker, 1893
- Fossil occurrences
- 2 sites
Countries with fossils
- United Kingdom
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata