Theropods are special for having hollow bones, three toes on their feet and most famously, hunted other dinosaurs and animals (although some theropods eventually started to eat plants too). This is because they were both part of a group of dinosaurs called theropods – bi-pedal (walked on two legs) carnivores. With length estimates of up to 8 metres, it was an agile predator which roamed the ancient continent of Pangaea during the Late Jurassic, 160 million years ago.Īlthough the Metriacanthosaurus is from an entirely different family of carnivorous dinosaur to the Carnotaurus, they are still distantly related to one another.

Metriacanthosaurus was a medium-sized theropod dinosaur which would have likely looked similar to its North American cousin, Allosaurus. However, it wasn’t until 1964 that paleontologist Alec Walker decided it should be named Metriacanthosaurus. These bones consisted of an incomplete hip, a leg bone, and part of a backbone and were originally thought to belong to Megalosaurus. It did have functional arms with big claws, though - that might be an advantage. Allosaurus was smaller, and had a bite force only half as powerful as T-rex. Allosaurus dominated the midwestern landscapes of the Upper.

The first bones of Metriacanthosaurus (Met-re-a-canth-o-saurus) are believed to have been discovered near Jordan’s cliff at Weymouth, a seaside town in Dorset along the Jurassic Coast. T-Rex VS Allosaurus vs spino T-Rex Allosaurus Chuck Norris Bolth die. Allosaurus vs Tyrannosaurus These creatures are both ferocious and fearsome carnivorous theropod giants who occupied the top of the ecological niche in their respective times.

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