FULGUROTHERIUM
a dubious ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Australia.
Pronunciation: full-GOO-ro-THEE-ree-um
Meaning: Lightning beast
Author/s: von Huene (
1932)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: New South Wales, Australia
Discovery Chart Position: #162
Fulgurotherium australe
(Southern lightning beast)Etymology
Fulgurotherium is derived from the Latin "fulgur" (lightning), alluding to Lightning Ridge in Australia where it was discovered, and the Greek "therium" (beast), which is unusual in being a word that is almost exclusively applied to extinct mammals.
The
species epithet,
australe, means "southern" in Latin.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Cenomanian
Age range: 99-96 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Huene Fv (1932) "Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte".
Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie, serie 1, 4(1-2): 1-361.
• Huene Fv (1944) "Aussichtsreiche Fundgegenden für künftige Sauriergrabungen".
Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Monatshefte, Abteilung B, 88: 441-451.
• Molnar RE and Galton PM (1986) "Hypsilophodontid dinosaurs from Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia."
Geobios, 19(2): 231-243.
• Agnolin FL, Ezcurra MD, Pais DF and Salisbury SW (2010) "
A reappraisal of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: evidence for their Gondwanan affinities".
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 8: 257–300.
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