(AL-oh-SORE-us)
Meat-eater
35 feet long
Late Jurassic, 145 million ago
Western North America
Allosaurus was the largest meat-eater of the Jurassic Period. It probably killed orscavenged plant-eaters much larger than itself including the giant Brachiosaurus.Scientists found nearly 50 allosaur skeletons and over 10,000 bones in one digsite in Utah.
