LOST KINGDOMS:  Series C
 



 #22 -Name:   CRYOLOPHOSAURUS
        -Scientific name:   Cryolophosaurus ellioti
        -Period:   Jurassic (210-145 million years ago)
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Cryolophosaurus lived in the cool forests that once covered Antartica. A meat-eating dinosaur that grew to about 6m in length, it would have hunted the small plant-eating reptiles that shared its habitat. The name of this dinosaur, meaning "frozen crested reptile", comes from the strange bony crest between its eyes. 		 

Animal type: Reptile
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