A new megalosaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Middle Jurassic (Callovian) of north-western Germany: Implications for theropod evolution and faunal turnover in the Jurassic

Citation

Rauhut, O. M.; Hübner, T.; Lanser, K. (2016). A new megalosaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Middle Jurassic (Callovian) of north-western Germany: Implications for theropod evolution and faunal turnover in the Jurassic. Palaeontologia Electronica 19(2): 26A. Coquina Press. doi:10.26879/654

Names first published here

• Wiehenvenator genus
• Wiehenvenator albati species

Cited by genera

• Elaphrosaurus

  Gives the type locality as German Tendaguru Expedition quarry dd and restates the horizon.

• Eustreptospondylus

  Wiehenvenator description placed it in the megalosaurid subfamily Eustreptospondylinae

• Lourinhanosaurus

  Recovered Lourinhanosaurus within Coelurosauria.

• Wiehenvenator
• Xuanhanosaurus

  Wiehenvenator description recovered it as a basal piatnitzkysaurid among megalosauroids

Cited by clades

• Megalosauridae

  Described Wiehenvenator; recovered Eustreptospondylus at the base of the second megalosaurid subfamily, which it calls Eustreptospondylinae for priority over Afrovenatorinae.

• Megalosauroidea

  Described Wiehenvenator, with a megalosauroid phylogeny that uses Eustreptospondylinae in place of Afrovenatorinae for priority.