The Dilophosaurus!
NAME: Meaning - Dilophosaurus means
"double-crested lizard" Pronounced - die-LOF-oh-SAWR-us Named By -
Samuel P. Welles When Named - 1970 DIET: Carnivore (meat-eater) -
it ate smaller plant-eating dinosaurs.
SIZE: Length - 20 feet (6 m) long Height - 5 feet
(1.5 m) tall at the hips Weight - 650 to 1,000 pounds (300 kg to
450 kg)
WHERE IT LIVED: Fossils have been found in Arizona, USA, North
America. Another specimen may have been found in China, Asia.
FOSSILS: The first fossil Dilophosaurus skeleton
was found in Arizona, USA, in the 1940's. Three Dilophosaurus
fossils have been found in the USA, all found together in Arizona.
They are now at the University of California's Museum of
Paleontology at Berkeley, USA. Fossils similar to those of
Dilophosaurus have been found in many places around the world.
CLASSIFICATION: Kingdom Animalia (animals) Phylum
Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain) Class
Archosauria (diapsids with socket-set teeth, etc.) Order Saurischia
- lizard-hipped dinosaurs Suborder Theropoda - bipedal carnivores
Family Ceratosauria (also called Coelophysoidea - the most
primitive theropod group, which includes Dilophosaurus and
Segisaurus) Genus Dilophosaurus Species wetherilli (type species:
Welles, 1954 - this species was originally called Megalosaurus
wetherilli)
INTERESTING FACTS: Dilophosaurus was a
fast-moving bipedal predator that had a double crest on its head.
Although it was depicted as spitting poison in the Jurassic Park
movie, there is no fossil evidence that it did so (it was also
pictured far too small, with an incorrect skull, and with a frill
it did not have).
(Info taken from
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/facts/Dilophosaurus/)
This cache is located in Northlake Nature Center.
It's hours of operation are dawn to dusk, 365 days a year. You can
get more info on this area through
http://www.northlakenature.org/.