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sharp-clawed runner · Doubtful name
Inosaurus
Inosaurus tedreftensis
Inosaurus ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Middle Jurassic. Bones have been found in Niger.
- When
- Middle Jurassic (Bathonian · Callovian) · roughly 168.2 to 161.5 million years ago
- Named in
- 1960 · Lapparent, A. F. D.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Niger · Tiourarén
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Theropoda
The story in short
The genus Inosaurus dates to 1960, the year A. F. D. Lapparent described it. The name means “in Tedreft lizard.”
It lived in the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian · Callovian), roughly 168.2 to 161.5 million years ago. Finds come from Niger, including the Tiourarén Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
The fossils of Inosaurus are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Theropoda, among the theropod dinosaurs.