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| * In the film version of '']'', one of the vials containing dinosaur DNA is labeled with the name ''Metriacanthosaurus'', though the genus does not appear in the film. | * In the film version of '']'', one of the vials containing dinosaur DNA is labeled with the name ''Metriacanthosaurus'', though the genus does not appear in the film. It is certain that it migrated and bred to the | ||
| island Isla Sorna, but never appeared in the videogames and films. | |||
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| Metriacanthosaurus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Family: | Sinraptoridae |
| Subfamily: | Metriacanthosaurinae Paul, 1988 |
| Genus: | Metriacanthosaurus von Huene, 1923 |
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Metriacanthosaurus (meaning "moderate-spined lizard") is a genus of sinraptorid dinosaur from the mid-Jurassic Period of England. In 1923 German Paleontologist Friedrich von Huene wrote a paper on Jurassic and Cretaceous European carnivorous dinosaurs. In this paper, he examined a few specimens including an incomplete hip, a leg bone, and part of a backbone, and believed it was a new species of Megalosaurus.
In the 1960s, however, scientist Alick Walker decided these fossils were too different from Megalosaurus and named a new genus, Metriacanthosaurus. Because so little is known about this dinosaur, any image is speculation, based on closely related carnivores. What is known about it is it is a carnivore distinct from any other.
Metriacanthosaurus gets its name from its vertebrae, which are taller than typical carnosaurs, like Allosaurus, but smaller than other high-spined dinosaurs like Acrocanthosaurus.
In popular culture
- In the film version of Jurassic Park, one of the vials containing dinosaur DNA is labeled with the name Metriacanthosaurus, though the genus does not appear in the film. It is certain that it migrated and bred to the
island Isla Sorna, but never appeared in the videogames and films.
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