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Baryonyx
Ate: MeatSpinosaursEarly Cretaceous
Baryonyx was one of the spinosaurs. Its fossils come from rocks about 139 to 110 million years old.1
Lived
139 to 110 million years ago1
Early CretaceousMost fossils found in
Spain, United Kingdom1
plus records from 2 more countriesFood
Meat1
When did it live?
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid
For dino experts
- Scientific name
- Baryonyx
- Named by
- Charig and Milner 19861
- Group
- Spinosaurs
- Family / clade
- Spinosauridae1
- Classification
- Theropoda > Spinosauridae1
- Age of the rocks
- 139 to 110 million years (Berriasian to Albian)1
- Rock formations
- Pinilla de los Moros, Weald Clay, Wessex1
- Countries
- Spain, United Kingdom, Portugal, Tunisia1
- Fossil records
- 12 in the Paleobiology Database1
Where the facts come from
- Baryonyx in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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