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Description
Here are the two known species of the genus:

Torvosaurus tanneri: Discovered in 1971 in the Dry Mesa Quarry in Colorado (which also contained the giant diplodocid sauropod Supersaurus vivianae) within the famous Morrison Formation which dated back 153 to 148 million BC to the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) and named 8 years later by American paleontologists Peter M. Galton and the late James A. Jenson (aka "Dinosaur Jim"), Torvosaurus tanneri was one of the largest carnivorous theropod dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and one of the largest land predators of the Jurassic. At around 30 to 33 feet in length and weighing around 5 tons, this bulky megalosaurid was the size of a killer whal. With its short, but powerful forelimbs sporting sharp claws to cling on to prey and mouth full of sharp serrated-edged teeth, Torvosaurus would've been a terrifying predator of its day, hunting and preying on the juveniles of sauropods it lived alongside with, as well as smaller herbivores like the armored-plated Stegosaurus and being an opportunistic scavenger, using its enormous size to intimidate other predators of the Morrison Formation such as the famous Allosaurus and steal their kills. Considering its size, it would've been an ambush predator, lying in wait through the shrubs and vegetation for any unsuspecting prey to pass by before bursting in a short distance for the attack. Much like the contemporary Ceratosaurus nasicornis, Torvosaurus preferred to be active around waterways, and had lower, more sinuous, bodies that would have given them an advantage in forest and underbrush terrains, whereas the more common Allosaurus had shorter bodies, longer legs, were faster but less maneuverable, and preferred dry floodplains. Its now believed that the giant Edmarka rex, found in Wyoming, is actually a Torvosaurus tanneri.

Torvosaurus gurneyi: Known from teeth, maxilla, legbones, vertebrae, and even eggs with embryos, this dinosaur was first discovered in 2000 and 2006 in the coastal area of the Lourinha Formation in west Portugal, which had a similar geologic age and fauna as the Morrison Formation, leading experts and scientists to believe that there was a land connection between North America and Portugal during Late Jurassic times. Originally thought to be Torvosaurus tanneri or an unnamed species of the genus, examinations show that it differs from its American counterpart by the number of teeth and the shape and size of the mouth, with the European species had less than the more than 11 teeth in the American species. In 2014, it was given the name Torvosaurus gurneyi, after artist James Gurney of Dinotopia fame. 33 feet in length (Originally it was thought to be up to 36 feet in length, but this was revised) and weighing around 5 tons, this was Europe's largest carnivorous theropod dinosaur and the largest predator that ever walked Europe. Living alongside other carnivorous theropods of the large, seasonally dry, island with open woodlands of the Lourinha Formation near the end of the Jurassic period, such Allosaurus europaeus, Ceratosaurus "dentisulcatus", and enigmatic Lourinhanosaurus, Torvosaurus gurneyi was the largest of them all and was the apex predator of the area, hunting and preying on juvenile sauropods (such as Supersaurus lourinhanensis, Lusotitan, etc.) and stegosaurs such as Miragaia (Pictured) and Stegosaurus. With its short, but powerful forelimbs sporting sharp claws to cling on to prey and mouth full of sharp serrated-edged teeth, this predator would've attacked with brute force. It would've also been an opportunistic scavenger, using its large size to intimidate other predators of Late Jurassic Portugal and steal their kills, as well as scavenging on carcasses of marine life (such as the plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, and ichthyosaurs) washed along the shoreline of the recently forming Atlantic Ocean and Tethys Sea.

Based on

Coloration based on the Torvosaurus from Discovery Channel's Dinosaur Revolution (2011) (Originally I was gonna based that on Stinktooth the Giganotosaurus from Dinotopia in honor of James Gurney's work, but then I decided to change to something else. Coloration of the slaughtered Miragaia longicollum based on the kentrosaurs from Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009).

Originally I was gonna have each of them and their own flags separated by the globe of Earth 150 million BC, but there wasn't enoughs layers to make and add.

Description
Here are the two known species of the genus:

Torvosaurus tanneri: Discovered in 1971 in the Dry Mesa Quarry in Colorado (which also contained the giant diplodocid sauropod Supersaurus vivianae) within the famous Morrison Formation which dated back 153 to 148 million BC to the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) and named 8 years later by American paleontologists Peter M. Galton and the late James A. Jenson (aka "Dinosaur Jim"), Torvosaurus tanneri was one of the largest carnivorous theropod dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and one of the largest land predators of the Jurassic. At around 30 to 33 feet in length and weighing around 5 tons, this bulky megalosaurid was the size of a killer whal. With its short, but powerful forelimbs sporting sharp claws to cling on to prey and mouth full of sharp serrated-edged teeth, Torvosaurus would've been a terrifying predator of its day, hunting and preying on the juveniles of sauropods it lived alongside with, as well as smaller herbivores like the armored-plated Stegosaurus and being an opportunistic scavenger, using its enormous size to intimidate other predators of the Morrison Formation such as the famous Allosaurus and steal their kills. Considering its size, it would've been an ambush predator, lying in wait through the shrubs and vegetation for any unsuspecting prey to pass by before bursting in a short distance for the attack. Much like the contemporary Ceratosaurus nasicornis, Torvosaurus preferred to be active around waterways, and had lower, more sinuous, bodies that would have given them an advantage in forest and underbrush terrains, whereas the more common Allosaurus had shorter bodies, longer legs, were faster but less maneuverable, and preferred dry floodplains. Its now believed that the giant Edmarka rex, found in Wyoming, is actually a Torvosaurus tanneri.

Torvosaurus gurneyi: Known from teeth, maxilla, legbones, vertebrae, and even eggs with embryos, this dinosaur was first discovered in 2000 and 2006 in the coastal area of the Lourinha Formation in west Portugal, which had a similar geologic age and fauna as the Morrison Formation, leading experts and scientists to believe that there was a land connection between North America and Portugal during Late Jurassic times. Originally thought to be Torvosaurus tanneri or an unnamed species of the genus, examinations show that it differs from its American counterpart by the number of teeth and the shape and size of the mouth, with the European species had less than the more than 11 teeth in the American species. In 2014, it was given the name Torvosaurus gurneyi, after artist James Gurney of Dinotopia fame. 33 feet in length (Originally it was thought to be up to 36 feet in length, but this was revised) and weighing around 5 tons, this was Europe's largest carnivorous theropod dinosaur and the largest predator that ever walked Europe. Living alongside other carnivorous theropods of the large, seasonally dry, island with open woodlands of the Lourinha Formation near the end of the Jurassic period, such Allosaurus europaeus, Ceratosaurus "dentisulcatus", and enigmatic Lourinhanosaurus, Torvosaurus gurneyi was the largest of them all and was the apex predator of the area, hunting and preying on juvenile sauropods (such as Supersaurus lourinhanensis, Lusotitan, etc.) and stegosaurs such as Miragaia (Pictured) and Stegosaurus. With its short, but powerful forelimbs sporting sharp claws to cling on to prey and mouth full of sharp serrated-edged teeth, this predator would've attacked with brute force. It would've also been an opportunistic scavenger, using its large size to intimidate other predators of Late Jurassic Portugal and steal their kills, as well as scavenging on carcasses of marine life (such as the plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, and ichthyosaurs) washed along the shoreline of the recently forming Atlantic Ocean and Tethys Sea.

Based on

Coloration based on the Torvosaurus from Discovery Channel's Dinosaur Revolution (2011) (Originally I was gonna based that on Stinktooth the Giganotosaurus from Dinotopia in honor of James Gurney's work, but then I decided to change to something else. Coloration of the slaughtered Miragaia longicollum based on the kentrosaurs from Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009).

Originally I was gonna have each of them and their own flags separated by the globe of Earth 150 million BC, but there wasn't enoughs layers to make and add.