Kingdom Metazoa
Phylum Chordata
Class Ornithosuchia
Subclass Dinosauria
Order Saurischia
- Theropoda, Indet.
Diet:
- Reptiles & Dinosaurs
- Mammals?
Habitat:
- Unknown
Material:
- Single Isolated Tooth
The Theropoda comprises quite a large and diverse assemblage of flesh-eating dinosaurs that are known from as early as the Mid Triassic Period, and which became extinct at the close of the Cretaceous. While many of these dinosaurs were unusually large and fierce, such as the popular genus Tyrannosaurus, others, such as Compsognathus were quite small and probably not as vicious. The size of the local fossil material, a single, isolated tooth found within a coprolite (preserved excrement), suggests that its owner was a rather small, toothed carnivore, of which there were many such families in existence during the Upper Cretaceous. They include the troodontids and dromaeosaurids, and a few other lesser known groups; any one of which may one day claim ownership to the only dinosaur fossil discovered, and properly identified, to date on Vancouver Island. This single tooth was discovered in Upper Cretaceous marine sediments along the banks of the lower Trent River.
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