Altispinax
Altispinax (meaning "with high spines") is an predatory theropod dinosaur that lived near Sussex, England. It lived during the Early Cretaceous, about 137 million years ago. It was closely related to Becklespinax, another dinosaur from Sussex.[1][2]
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| Holotype (NHMUK R1828) illustrated c. 1850s | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Infraorder: | Carnosauria |
| Genus: | Altispinax von Huene, 1923 |
| Species: | A. dunkeri
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| Altispinax dunkeri von Huene, 1923
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Altispinax Media
The humped Megalosaurus in Crystal Palace Park, London.
Von Meyer's restoration of Megalosaurus with long neural spines
Foot claw (specimen BMNH 2482) provisionally referred to Altispinax by von Huene in 1926. Natural History Museum, London.
Altispinax reconstructed after Concavenator, based on Darren Naish's blog post.
References
- ↑ "Re: _Becklespinax_". Archives of the DINOSAUR Mailing List. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History. 18 Feb 1997. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ↑ Naish, D. 2010. "Pneumaticity, the early years: Wealden Supergroup dinosaurs and the hypothesis of saurischian pneumaticity". In: Moody, R. T. J., Buffetaut, E., Naish, D. & Martill, D. M. (eds) Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 343, pp. 229-236