Walgettosuchus
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| Walgettosuchus Fossil range: Early Cretaceous |
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Walgettosuchus (meaning "Walgett crocodile") is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur. It was described in 1932 by Friedrich von Huene from an incomplete amphicoelous caudal vertebra centrum (BMNH R3717) found in the Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Griman Creek Formation, Lightning Ridge, New South Wales.[1] For unknown reasons,[2] he believed it had elongate prezygapophyses.[1] He also suggested that if more material was known, it could prove to be synonymous with other Lightning Ridge "coelurosaurs" (i.e. Rapator; coelurosaur in the old sense of any small theropod).[1]
In his 1990 review, Molnar noted that the type cannot be distinguished from tail vertebrae from ornithomimids or allosaurids, and considered it to be an indeterminate theropod.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c von Huene, F. (1932). Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihte Entwicklung und Geschichte. Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie 1(4). 361 p. [German]
- ^ a b Molnar, R.E. (1990). Problematic Theropoda: "Carnosaurs". In: Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H. (eds.). The Dinosauria. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press:Berkeley and Los Angeles, p. 306-317. ISBN 0-520-06727-4
