Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis Walker 1964 (tetanuran theropod)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Megalosauridae

Alternative combination: Magnosaurus oxoniensis

Full reference: A. D. Walker. 1964. Triassic reptiles from the Elgin area: Ornithosuchus and the origin of carnosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 248:53-134

Belongs to Eustreptospondylus according to M. T. Carrano et al. 2012

See also Aureliano et al. 2018, Bakker et al. 1992, Buffetaut 1997, Buffetaut et al. 1995, Colbert and Russell 1969, Fernandes de Azevedo et al. 2013, Hendrickx and Mateus 2014, Holtz et al. 2004, Knoll et al. 1999, Martill 1988, Molnar 1974, Molnar 1991, Molnar et al. 1996, Molnar et al. 1990, Naish and Martill 2007, Novas 1997, Osmólska and Roniewicz 1970, Paul 1988, Rauhut 2003, Rauhut et al. 2016, Sadleir et al. 2004, Sadleir et al. 2008, Sampson and Witmer 2007, Smith 1997, Steel 1970, Walker 1964 and Welles 1984

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: OUM J13558, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Summertown Pit, Wolvercote (OUM), which is in a Callovian marine claystone in the Oxford Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Summertown Pit, Wolvercote (OUM)

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