Eustreptospondylus

Skeletal credit to Scott Hartman

Same rules as last time.

I know that Britain was mostly under water and full of Islands in the Mesozoic so large theropods the size of Rex couldn’t evolve. However, which British theropod was the largest?

And here's your daily dose of Terrifying Dinosaurs:

Rahonavis fails at Wii Play Motion's Veggie Guardin'

Pterygotus rips a Mudkip in half, and eats the first half of the Hoenn Water Type Starter

Plateosaurus kills a Galarian Zigzagoon using its thumb claws

Rare footage of Hoopa summoning a truck to kill an Amphicyon

Ankylosaurus films Lopunny taking a swim while Pukyongosaurus also fails NNN in the process

Gigantopithecus squishes a Sentret

Carcharodontosaurus eats a Butterfree

And here's your daily dose of Terrifying Dinosaurs:

A Tyrannosaurus with a jetpack fights God

Requested by @Palaeontologica

Nigersaurus gives someone the N-Word Pass

Requested by @Savage Almond

The tyrannosauroids discuss their plans on how to end this Pokémon-Dinosaur war peacefully

Requested by @Bajadasaurus234

Steelix leads a war against the Dinosaurs in Hell Creek for killing Brock

Requested by @Nizaluddin

A Quetzalcoatlus and an Eustreptospondylus burst into Professor Kukui from Pokemon Sun and Moon's lab and kill the Rowlet, Litten and Popplio housed inside

Avery uses his psychic powers to mind-fuck Megaraptor

Requested by @Mimikyutube

Opening Paleo Exhibit: Eustreptospondylus

Eustreptospondylus was a genus of megalosaurid theropod dinosaurs that lived in Europe, 163-154 millions of years ago from middle to late jurassic in the oxfordian stage. It's remains were discovered in 1870 by a group of workers at Summertown Brick PIT, just North of Oxford, England. The remains were acquired by the local bookseller James Parker, who brought them to the attention of Oxford Professor John Phillips. Phillips described the bones in 1871, but did not name them. In 1890, the remains were bought by Oxford University and Arthur Smith Woodward assigned to Megalosaurus Bucklandi. In 1905 and 1906 Baron Franz Nopcsa reassigned the skeleton to the species, Streptospondylus cuvieri. In 1964, Alick Donald Walker clarified matters by erecting a separate genus and species for the Oxford specimen: Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis. E. oxoniensis is the only species in the genus and it's name means "Oxford's well curved vertebra".

Eustreptospondylus was a Carnivores and it probably preyed on smaller animals and scavenged when it needed to. Eustreptospondylus has a rether pointed snout if you look at it from the side, with a large horizontally oriented nostril. No teeth have been found, but the size of its toothsockets shows that the 3rd tooth of its lower haw was enlargened.

The holotype specimen of Eustreptospondylus isn't fully grown and it grew to a size of 4.63 meters and weighted some where around 218 kg. An adult individual could grow to some where around 6 meters in lenght, 2 meters in height and a weight of 0.5 tonnes.

Back when Eustreptospondylus lived, Europe consisted mostly of archipelagos, because of that, Eustreptospondylus is often considered a good swimmer, strong enough to swim from an island to an island, much like modern Komodo Dragons.

Paleo exhibit: Eustreptospondylus

Next weeks exhibit: Mononykus