Megalosauria

† Ohmdenosaurus liasicus was a small sauropod (~4m) from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) of Germany. One of the oldest and smallest true sauropods known, it provides critical information about early sauropod evolution before the group achieved the giant body sizes of the late Jurassic.

Diet & Feeding

Carnivore

Megalosauria was a meat-eating predator. Carnivorous dinosaurs were active hunters or scavengers, equipped with sharp teeth and claws for catching and consuming prey. They occupied the top of the food chain in their ecosystems.

Time Period

Cretaceous Early Mesozoic Era

Megalosauria lived during the Cretaceous Early period of the Mesozoic Era, approximately 145.0 to 100.5 million years ago.

The Cretaceous saw continued dinosaur evolution with the rise of ornithopods and early ceratopsians. Flowering plants first appeared and began to transform terrestrial ecosystems. Spinosaurus and other large theropods lived during this time.