Epanterias

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iEpanterias
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Infraorder: Carnosauria
Family: Allosauridae
Genus: Epanterias
Binomial name
Epanterias amplexus
Cope, 1878

Epanterias amplexus is a species of theropod dinosaur described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1878 [1]. Epanterias was a speices of allosaur, and is considered by most paleontologists to be a species of Allosaurus rather than a separate genus. Epanterias may have rivaled Tyrannosaurus rex in size or exceeded it, with length estimates of around 13 or 14 meters.[2].

It lived in the late Jurassic, in western North America.

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