Betasuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | †Ceratosauria |
Clade: | †Neoceratosauria |
Superfamily: | †Abelisauroidea |
Genus: | †Betasuchus von Huene, 1932 |
Species: | †B. bredai
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Binomial name | |
†Betasuchus bredai (Seeley, 1883 [originally Megalosaurus])
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Betasuchus is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous Period. Betasuchus is, besides Orthomerus, the only dinosaur genus named from remains found in the Netherlands and the only non-avian theropod found in the Maastrichtian Beds.