Embasaurus
Name:
Embasaurus
(Emba lizard, anmed after the Emba River).
Phonetic: Em-bah-sore-us.
Named By: Anatoly Riabinin - 1931.
Synonyms: Embasasaurus.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Megalosauroidea?/Tyrannosauroidea?
Species: E. minax (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of remains.
Known locations: Kazakhstan.
Time period: Berriasian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Two partial vertebrae.
Embasaurus is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in Kazakhstan during the Early Cretaceous. For a long time Embasaurus has been considered to be a basal tyrannosauroid, but a later study by George Olshevsky raised the idea that Embasaurus might have been a megalosauroid.
Further reading
- Two dinosaurian vertebrae from the Lower Cretaceous of Transcaspian
Steppes. - Zapiski Russkogo Min. Obshchestva (ser. 2) 60:
110-113. - A. N. Riabinin - 1991.
- A revision of the parainfraclass Archosauria Cope, 1869,
excluding the advanced Crocodylia. - Mesozoic Meanderings 2
(San Diego): 196. - George Olshevsky - 1991.
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