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SARCOLESTES
(sar-co-les-teez)
meaning: "Flesh theif"
Sarcolestes
Named By: Richard Lydekker in 1893
Time Period: Late Jurassic, 165 Ma
Location: England - Oxford Clay Formation
Size: Uncertain due to lack of remains
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial mandible (lower jaw)
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Thyreophora | Ankylosauria |
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Sarcolestes (meaning "flesh robber") is an extinct genus of ankylosaurian ornithischian dinosaur from the Oxford Clay of England. The current type and only species is S. leedsi, and the holotype is a single partial left mandible. The genus and species were named in 1893 by Richard Lydekker, who thought they belonged to a theropod.

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