It requires a steady fish diet in its diet to remain healthy, as well as occasional meat based foods for a varied diet. Although it isn't as large as Tyrannosaurus or other such therapods, it is still an impressive size and its more docile nature means it can be housed more easily, though care must be given that its massive claw causes no damage. Although Iguanodon bones have also been found in the stomach of one specimen, it is unclear whether the Baryonyx hunted an Iguanodon or it happened upon and scavenged an Iguanodon corpse.īaryonyx is a popular dinosaur, especially in the British Isles where it was first discovered and is one of the best understood British dinosaur species. Its large claws would have made suitable tools to stab and scoop up fish.
Baryonyx was one of the largest carnivores in the Wessex formation, rivaling that of Neovenator, however its diet based on fossil evidence seemed to consist mostly of fish. Baryonyx lived alongside many other species of dinosaur, such as the herbivores Hypsilophodon and Hylaeosaurus and the therapods Eotyrannus and Neovenator, in Britain, the ornithomimosaur Pelecanimimus and the therapod Concavenator in Spain and Iguanodon in both countries.
Baryonyx was a member of the spinosauridae family and an important discovery the skull of Baryonyx was fully intact and showed the crocodile like jaws, unlike the older reconstructions of Spinosaurus which depict it with a typical carnosaur head. Later a full scale expedition organised by the Natural History Museum discovered an almost complete skeleton of Baryonyx. Walker when he unearthed an enormous claw, hence how the species was named. It was discovered by accident by amateur fossil collector William J. Baryonyx is a large carnivore from Early Cretaceous Europe. The Triassic was a major period of transition in animal species, starting with very low diversity after the largest extinction event in Earths history and recovering to higher diversity over a.
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