Spinostropheus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
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Speculative life restoration of Spinostropheus as a generalized theropod | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Neotheropoda |
Genus: | †Spinostropheus Sereno et al. 2004 |
Type species | |
†Spinostropheus gautieri Lapparent, 1960 (originally Elaphrosaurus gautieri)
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Spinostropheus is a genus of carnivorous neotheropod theropod dinosaur that lived in the Middle Jurassic period and has been found in the Tiouraren Formation, Niger. The type and only species is S. gautieri.