Piveteausaurus
Piveteausaurus (meaning "Jean Piveteau's lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur known from a partial skull discovered in the Middle Jurassic Marnes de Dives formation of Calvados, in northern France and lived about 164.7-161.2 million years ago. In 2012 Thomas Holtz gave a possible length of 11 meters (36 feet).
| Piveteausaurus | |
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| Holotype | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Megalosauridae |
| Genus: | †Piveteausaurus Taquet & Welles, 1977 |
| Species: | †P. divesensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Piveteausaurus divesensis (Walker, 1964 [originally Eustreptospondylus]) | |
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