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Epanterias

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Epanterias
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Saurischia
Suborder:
Theropoda
Infraorder:
Carnosauria
Family:
Allosauridae
Genus:
Epanterias
Binomial name
Epanterias amplexus

Epanterias amplexus is a species of theropod dinosaur described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1878 [1]. Epanterias was a species of allosaur, and is considered by most paleontologists to be a species of Allosaurus rather than a separate genus. Epanterias may have rivaled Tyrannosaurus rex in size or exceeded it, with length estimates of around 14 or 15 meters.[2].

It lived in the late Jurassic, in western North America.


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