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| NAME: | Meaning - Torvosaurus means "savage lizard" Pronounced - TOR-vo-SAWR-us Named By - Peter M. Galton and James A. Jensen When Named - 1979 |
| DIET: | Carnivore (meat-eater); Torvosaurus ate large plant-eating dinosaurs like stegosaurs and sauropods. |
| SIZE: | Length - 33-40 ft (10-12 m) long Height - 8 ft (2.5 m) tall at the hips Weight - 3 tons |
| WHEN IT LIVED: | Late Jurassic period, about 144 million years ago |
| WHERE IT LIVED: | Fossils have been found in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, USA, North America. |
| FOSSILS: | Torvosaurus was found by Jim Jensen and Kenneth Stadtman in 1972, in the Dry Mesa quarry in western Colorado. |
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Torvosaurus walked on two powerful legs. It had strong, short arms; the forearms were about half the length of the upper arms. It had huge thumb claws and large, sharp teeth. |
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