Ozraptor

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Ozraptor Fossil range: Middle Jurassic
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Saurischia Suborder: Theropoda Infraorder: Ceratosauria Superfamily: Abelisauroidea Genus: Ozraptor Species: O. subotaii
Binomial name
Ozraptor subotaii Long & Molnar, 1998

Ozraptor ("Australian thief") was an abelisaurian dinosaur that lived during the Middle Jurassic period of Australia. Only known from one partial leg bone, Ozraptor is difficult to classify. When first discovered in 1967, the bone was thought to belong to a turtle. Re-evaluation of the bone by Long and Molnar(1998) showed that it was actually some sort of theropod. Another study by Rauhut (2005) suggested that it was indeed a theropod, and more specifically, an abelisaur. The type (and only known) species is O. subotaii.

[edit] References

• Long and Molnar, 1998. A new Jurassic theropod dinosaur from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 19 (1); 221-229.
• Rauhut, 2005. Post-cranial remains of ‘coelurosaurs’ (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic of Tanzania. Geol. Mag. 142 (1), pp. 97–107.

[edit] External links

• Ozraptor in The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia at Dino Russ's Lair