Sarcolestes
"Flesh thief "

Length
Time, Million Years Ago
Place
3m
159 - 155
England

First Named
Discoverer
Family
1893
Lydekker
Ankylosaur

Mistakenly identified as a meat-eating dinosaur. This is the earliest record of a nodosaurid from anywhere in the world.

Type Species Information
After which the Genus is named

Sarcolestes leedsi
Remains: Partial mandible

© 2002 Gavin Rymill

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