Eotyrannus Lengi

Eotyrannus("Dawn Tyrant") is a genus of basal Tyrannosaurid from the early cretaceous of Europe. It lived 50 million years before its more famous gigantic relative, and was a great deal smaller. Eotyrannus stretched 5 meters and weighed around 5oo pounds. The tyrannosaur had long legs and grasping hands with three fingers, a common trait in early Tyrannosaurs.

Discovered in 1995 and made known in 2001 by Gavin Leng, it's a relatively recent discovery. The holotype, IWCMS.1997.550, is around 40% complete. Parts of the skull, including the dentary and some teeth; various vertebrae from the neck and back, and possibly tail; shoulder girdle, radius and ulna, carpal, metacarpals and some phalanges including unguals; parts of the pelvis; most of a tibia, a fibula, metatarsals and phalanges, including one pedal ungual.

Measurements of some of the limbs suggest the animal would have been about 4 to 5 metres long; however some of the bone sutures are not fully fused suggesting that the specimen was not an adult. For a length of 4 to 5 metres the height is estimated to be from 1.5 to 1.8 metres.

It's teeth are recurved, and share the Characteristic "D" shape of the Tyrannosaur line. eing not all that large, Eotyrannus most likely hunted  the ornithopod Hypsilophodon and young Iguanodon when it had the opportunity. Eotyrannus shared its environment with the Spinosaur Baryonyx, which it most likely would not have competed heavily with.