Juratyrant

Jurassic tyrant

• Jura · Latinised, from Jurassic · Jurassic (the Jura Mountains, which gave the period its name)
• tyrannos · Greek · tyrant

The name combines "Jura", for the Jurassic Period, with the Greek "tyrannos", meaning tyrant. It marks the animal as a tyrannosauroid (a relative of Tyrannosaurus) from the Jurassic. The type species is Juratyrant langhami.

Named by

Brusatte and Benson

Year named

2013

Period

Late Jurassic

Stage

Tithonian

Found in

Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Dorset, England, UK

A basal tyrannosauroid theropod. It was first described in 2008 as a second species of Stokesosaurus (S. langhami) and moved to its own genus in 2013. The geologic stage is given with moderate confidence.