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Walgettosuchus

Huene, 1932 Nomen dubium

From the town of Walgett, New South Wales, plus Greek Soukhos (the Egyptian crocodile god Sobek)

100.5–93.9 million years ago Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous
Late Cretaceous stages

Walgettosuchus is a dubious or possibly invalid genus of extinct tetanuran theropod dinosaur that lived in Australia during the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian). It is known from a single caudal vertebra.

Under dispute

Walgettosuchus woodwardi is a nomen dubium based on a single caudal vertebra, most recently regarded as an indeterminate theropod (Agnolín and colleagues, 2010).

Species

Walgettosuchus woodwardi Huene, 1932 Nomen dubium

Type species

Honors British paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward, who first reported the specimen in 1909

Holotype
BMNH R3717 , Natural History Museum
Material
A single distal caudal vertebra
Horizon
Wallangulla Sandstone Member, Griman Creek Formation, Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous , 100.5–93.9 million years ago
Locality
Lightning Ridge, near Walgett, New South Wales, Australia

References

  1. Huene, F. V. (1932). Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte [The fossil reptile order Saurischia, their development and history]. Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie, serie 1 4(1-2): 1-361. huene1932a
  2. Agnolín, F. L.; Ezcurra, M. D.; Pais, D. F.; Salisbury, S. W. (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(2): 257-300. Informa UK Limited. doi:10.1080/14772011003594870

    Reassessed Walgettosuchus in a review of Australian dinosaur faunas.

    agnolín2010a