Merosaurus
| Merosaurus newmani Temporal range: Early Jurassic
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| The knee-joint and a claw | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Genus: | †Merosaurus Welles, Powell and Pickering vide Pickering, 1995 |
| Species: | †M. newmani
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| Binomial name | |
| †Merosaurus newmani Welles, Powell and Pickering vide Pickering, 1995
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"Merosaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian stage, around 190 million years ago).
It was a tetanuran theropod which lived in what is now England. The type species, "Merosaurus newmani", was coined by paleontologists Samuel Welles, H.P. Powell, and A. Pickering in 1995, and is based solely on some leg bones (a knee joint) once thought to belong to Scelidosaurus.[1]
References
- ^ Mortimer, M (2004) "The Theropod Database". University of Washington. Retrieved 2007-07-04.
Pickering, S., 1995. "Jurassic Park: Unauthorized Jewish Fractals in Philopatry," A Fractal Scaling in Dinosaurology Project, 2nd revised printing, Capitola, California: 478 pp.
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