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Eotyrannus Fact Sheet

Dinosaur/Paleontology Dictionary

NAME:	Meaning - Eotyrannus means "dawn tyrant" or "early tyrant" Pronounced - e-o-tie-RAN-us Named By - Hutt, Naish, Martill, Barker and Newbery When Named - 2001
DIET:	Carnivore (meat-eater)
SIZE:	Length - 15 ft (4.5 m) long Weight - ?
WHEN IT LIVED:	Middle Cretaceous period, about 120 to 125 million years ago
WHERE IT LIVED:	Fossils have been found in the Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight, off the coast of Great Britain, Europe.
FOSSILS:	What was Found - A 40-percent complete fossil was found in 1997 (including the front half of the skull). Who Found the Fossils - Eotyrannus was found by a team headed by Darren Naish (Univ. of Portsmouth).
CLASSIFICATION:	Kingdom Animalia (animals) Phylum Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain) Class Archosauria (diapsids with socket-set teeth, etc.) Order Saurischia - lizard-hipped dinosaurs Suborder Theropoda - bipedal carnivores Tetanura - advanced theropods Infraorder Coelurosauria - lightly-built fast-running predators with hollow bones and large brains Superfamily Maniraptoriformes - advanced coelurosaurs with a fused wrist bone Family Tyrannosauroidea - huge predators with small arms and two-fingered hands (the third finger was very tiny). Tyrannosaurids include T. rex, Albertosaurus, Alectrosaurus, Alioramus, Chingkankousaurus, Daspletosaurus, Gorgosaurus, Nanotyrannus, Prodeinodon, Tarbosaurus, etc. Genus Eotyrannus Species E. lengi (type species named by Hutt, Naish, Martill, Barker & Newbery, 2001), named to honor Gavin Leng, who found the first fossil on the Isle of Wight.
INTERESTING FACTS:	Eotyrannus was a relative of T. rex.

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