Sarcosaurus

Sarcosaurus; Temporal range: Hettangian-Sinemurian; ~
	Skeletons of the known specimens of Sarcosaurus woodi (restored as a ceratosaur)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Clade:	Neotheropoda
Genus:	†Sarcosaurus; Andrews, 1921
Type species
	†Sarcosaurus woodi; Andrews, 1921
Synonyms
	Magnosaurus woodi; (Andrews, 1921) Huene, 1932; Magnosaurus woodwardi; Huene, 1932; Megalosaurus (Magnosaurus) woodwardi; Huene, 1932; Sarcosaurus andrewsi?; Huene, 1932; Megalosaurus andrewsi?; (Huene, 1932) Waldman, 1972;

Sarcosaurus (Latin: "flesh lizard") is a genus of basal neotheropod dinosaur, roughly 3.5 metres (11 ft) long. It lived in what is now England and maybe Ireland and Scotland during the Hettangian-Sinemurian stages of the Early Jurassic, about 199-196 million years ago. Sarcosaurus is one of the earliest known Jurassic theropods, and one of only a handful of theropod genera from this time period. Along with Dracoraptor hanigani it is one of the two described neotheropods from the lowermost Jurassic of the United Kingdom.

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