Proceratosaurus
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Proceratosaurus is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of England. It contains a single species. P. bradleyi, known from a mostly complete skull and lower jaws. Proceratosaurus was a small dinosaur, estimated to measure around 3 m (9.8 ft) in length.[1][2][3] Its name refers to how it was originally thought to be an ancestor of Ceratosaurus, due to the partially preserved portion of the crest of Proceratosaurus superficially resembling the small crest of Ceratosaurus.[4] Now, however, it is considered a coelurosaur, specifically a member of the family Proceratosauridae, and amongst the earliest known members of the clade Tyrannosauroidea.[5]
Proceratosaurus | |
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Holotype skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Proceratosauridae |
Genus: | †Proceratosaurus von Huene, 1926 |
Species: | †P. bradleyi |
Binomial name | |
†Proceratosaurus bradleyi (Woodward, 1910 [originally Megalosaurus]) | |
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The type specimen is held in the Natural History Museum in London and was described in 1910 from oolitic limestone of the Great Oolite Group near Minchinhampton while excavating for a reservoir.[6]