The Dilophosaurus is a theropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Early Jurassic. In 1940 three skeletons were discovered in northern Arizona, and its genus name, ”two-crested lizard”, honors John Wetherill, a Navajo councilor. It was an active and bipedal species that may have hunted both large and small animals as well as fish. While smaller than some later theropods, the Dilophosaurus was one of the earliest large predatory dinosaurs; it was slender and lightly built with a proportionally large skull. The skill was narrow with a pair of longitudinal, plate-shaped crests.
The Dilophosaurus had an overall length between 16’-20’ (4.88-6.1 m), standing height of 5.7’-7.4’ (1.75-2.25 m), and body width of 15.75”-23.6” (40-60 cm). The weight of the Dilophosaurus was between 650-1,000 lb (295-454 kg).
The Dilophosaurus is a theropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Early Jurassic. In 1940 three skeletons were discovered in northern Arizona, and its genus name, ”two-crested lizard”, honors John Wetherill, a Navajo councilor. It was an active and bipedal species that may have hunted both large and small animals as well as fish. While smaller than some later theropods, the Dilophosaurus was one of the earliest large predatory dinosaurs; it was slender and lightly built with a proportionally large skull. The skill was narrow with a pair of longitudinal, plate-shaped crests.
The Dilophosaurus had an overall length between 16’-20’ (4.88-6.1 m), standing height of 5.7’-7.4’ (1.75-2.25 m), and body width of 15.75”-23.6” (40-60 cm). The weight of the Dilophosaurus was between 650-1,000 lb (295-454 kg).
