Description
- Dinosaur Size: 10.24 inches in length, 4.13 inches in height
Ceratosaurus /?s?r?to??s??r?s/ (from Greek ?/?, keras/keratos meaning "horn" and ?/sauros meaning "lizard") was a predatory theropod dinosaur in the Late Jurassic Period (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian). This genus was first described in 1884 by American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh based on a nearly complete skeleton discovered in Garden Park, Colorado, in rocks belonging to the Morrison Formation. The type species is Ceratosaurus nasicornis.