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Spinostropheus

Spinostropheus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
Speculative life restoration of Spinostropheus as a generalized theropod
Scientific classification Edit this 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)

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.


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