Metriacanthosaurus was a medium-sized theropod dinosaur which would have likely looked similar to its North American cousin, Allosaurus. However, it wasn’t until 1964 that paleontologist Alec Walker decided it should be named Metriacanthosaurus. These bones consisted of an incomplete hip, a leg bone, and part of a backbone and were originally thought to belong to Megalosaurus. The first bones of Metriacanthosaurus (Met-re-a-canth-o-saurus) are believed to have been discovered near Jordan’s cliff at Weymouth, a seaside town in Dorset along the Jurassic Coast.
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