Eotyrannus lengi Hutt et al. 2001 (coelurosaur)

Reptilia - Theropoda

Full reference: S. Hutt, D. Naish, D. M. Martill, M. J. Barker, and P. Newbery. 2001. A preliminary account of a new tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous) of southern England. Cretaceous Research 22:227-242

Belongs to Eotyrannus according to T. R. Holtz 2004

See also Barker et al. 2020, Carr et al. 2017, Hendrickx and Mateus 2014, Hutt et al. 2001, Naish et al. 2001, Naish and Martill 2007, Poropat and Kear 2013, Ruiz-OmeƱaca and Canudo 2003, Thomson et al. 2013 and Weems and Bachman 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MIWG 1997.550. Its type locality is Eotyrannus type, SW Isle of Wight (PROXY), which is in a Hauterivian/Barremian floodplain claystone in the Wessex Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Eotyrannus type, SW Isle of Wight (PROXY)

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