Named By: | Oliver W. M. Rauhut in 2011 |
Time Period: | Late Jurassic, 154-150 Ma |
Location: | Tanzania - Tendaguru Formation |
Size: | Uncertain due to lack of remains, however when originally described by Rauhut and compared to Acrocanthosaurus, was estimated to be somewhere between 8.5 and 10 meters in length |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Few vertebrae |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Carcharodontosauria | Carcharodontosauridae | |
Veterupristisaurus is an extinct genus of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur known from the Jurassic of Tendaguru, southeastern Tanzania.