Becklespinax is a large meat-eating dinosaur that lived during Early Cretaceous in England. It was medium size aproaching 8 meters long and 1 ton weight. Its name means "Beckle's spined lizard". It was discovered in 1844 and has had several names since then. Unfortunately, very little of this dinosaur has been found, which only helps make things confusing.
One thing that is known is that it had fairly tall spines on its back like the North American Acrocanthosaurus. The famous Crystal Palace dinosaur sculptures, which still stand today in London, include what is known as the "Humpbacked Megalosauru". This humped feature may be a result of Owen's interpretation that these neural spines belonged to Megalosaurus as was believed in an early assignment of the specimen.
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