Dubreuillosaurus

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Dubreuillosaurus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic
Life restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Theropoda
Family:	†Megalosauridae
Subfamily:	†Megalosaurinae
Genus:	†Dubreuillosaurus Allain, 2005
Species:	†D. valesdunensis
Binomial name
Dubreuillosaurus valesdunensis (Allain, 2002 [originally Poekilopleuron])
Synonyms
Poekilopleuron valesdunensis Allain, 2002

Dubreuillosaurus is a genus of carnivorous dinosaur from the middle Jurassic Period. It was a megalosaurid theropod. Its fossils were found in France.

The type species, D. valesdunensis, was originally assigned to the genus Poekilopleuron as P. valesdunensis. Ronan Allain in 2005 created the new genus name Dubreuillosaurus for this species.

It was estimated to be at around 9 metres (30 ft) in length, and had an unusually low and long skull, with the length of the skull being three times the height.^[1]

References

1. ^ Dubreuillosaurus entry at DinoData

External links

• Tetanurae at Thescelosaurus web site
• Dubreuillosaurus in the Dino Directory

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