| Eotyrannus | |
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Kingdom: |
Animalia |
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Phylum: |
Chordata |
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Class: |
Reptilia |
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Superorder: |
Dinosauria |
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Order: |
Saurischia |
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Suborder: |
Theropoda |
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Superfamily: |
†Tyrannosauroidea |
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Genus: |
†Eotyrannus |
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Species: |
†E. lengi (type) |
Eotyrannus is an extinct genus basal tyrannosaurid that lived during the Early Cretaceous peroid. It is known from the Wessex Formation beds in what is now the Isle of White and Wessex, England.
Eotyrannus, in life, would have measured 4 meters (14 feet) in length. This genus had many typical tyrannosaur charecteristics. It had an elongated neck vertatebrae and long forelimbs, charecteristics common to basal Tyrannosauroidea. Eotyrannus had premaxillary teeth with D-shape cross sections and would have likely preyed on Hypsilophodon and young Iguanodon, both of which coexisted with Eotyrannus.