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armored dinosaur
Sarcolestes
Say it like this: “SAHR-ko-LES-teez”
Sarcolestes leedsi
Sarcolestes ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Middle Jurassic. Bones have been found in the United Kingdom.
- When
- Middle Jurassic (Callovian) · roughly 165.3 to 161.5 million years ago
- Named in
- 1893 · Lydekker, R.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 2.1 m · 7 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- the United Kingdom · Oxford Clay
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- armored dinosaur · Ankylosaur
- Family branch
- Ankylosauria
The story in short
The genus Sarcolestes dates to 1893, the year R. Lydekker described it. The name means “flesh robber.”
Fossils referred to Sarcolestes date to the Middle Jurassic (Callovian), roughly 165.3 to 161.5 million years ago. Finds come from the United Kingdom, including the Oxford Clay Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Sarcolestes at a length near 2.1 m.
On the family tree it sits in Ankylosauria, among the armored dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Acanthopholis
Acanthopholis horrida
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago
Ahshislepelta
Ahshislepelta minor
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Crichtonsaurus
Crichtonsaurus bohlini
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian · Turonian) · roughly 100.5 to 89.8 million years ago