Wakinosaurus

Okazaki, 1992 wah-KEEN-o-SOR-us Nomen dubium

Named after the Wakino Subgroup of the Kwanmon Group (a geological unit in Kyushu, Japan), combined with Greek sauros meaning 'lizard'; translates as 'Wakino lizard'

125.8–121.4 million years ago Barremian, Early Cretaceous

Early Cretaceous stages

Wakinosaurus is a genus of possible carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian-Barremian) Sengoku Formation of Kyushu, Japan. The genus is a tooth taxon, based solely on the middle section of a single tooth.

Under dispute

Wakinosaurus satoi is a nomen dubium based on a single tooth, suggested to be a carcharodontosaurid (Yun, 2020).

Species

Wakinosaurus satoi Okazaki, 1992 Nomen dubium

Type species

Named for Masahiro Sato, the ice hockey player who discovered the holotype tooth in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1990.

Holotype: KMNH VP 000,016 , Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History
Material: Single damaged tooth
Horizon: Sengoku Formation, Barremian, Early Cretaceous , 125.8–121.4 million years ago
Locality: Sengokukyo, Fukuoka, Japan

References

Okazaki, Y. (1992). A new genus and species of carnivorous dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Kwanmon Group, northern Kyushu. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 11: 87-90. Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History. doi:10.34522/bkmnh.11.0_87 okazaki1992a
Yun, C. G. (2020). A carcharodontosaurid tooth from the Hasandong Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of South Korea. Mongolian Geoscientist 50: 2-10. doi:10.5564/mgs.v50i0.1325 yun2020a