A new theropod dinosaur from the Callovian Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan

Citation

Rauhut, O. W. M.; Bakirov, A. A.; Wings, O.; Fernandes, A. E.; Hübner, T. R. (2024). A new theropod dinosaur from the Callovian Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 201(4). Oxford University Press (OUP). doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae090

Names first published here

• Alpkarakush genus
• Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus species

Cited by genera

• Alpkarakush
• Asfaltovenator

  Recovered Asfaltovenator within Allosauridae as sister taxon to Allosaurus.

• Chilantaisaurus

  New theropod description's phylogenetic analysis bore on Chilantaisaurus's tetanuran placement.

• Lourinhanosaurus

  Recovered Lourinhanosaurus within Megalosauridae under implied weights.

• Monolophosaurus

  New Kyrgyzstan theropod description recovered Monolophosaurus as an early-branching spinosaurid.

• Neovenator

  Recovers a Neovenatoridae of Neovenator and Chilantaisaurus within Allosauria.

• Shaochilong

  Recovered Shaochilong as a coelurosaur, not a carcharodontosaurid.

• Shidaisaurus

  Recovered Shidaisaurus as the earliest-branching metriacanthosaurid.

• Siamotyrannus

  Reanalysis placed Siamotyrannus within Metriacanthosaurinae.

• Sinosaurus

  Recovered "Dilophosaurus" sinensis outside Averostra.

• Sinraptor

  New Kyrgyzstan theropod description supporting Sinraptor's Metriacanthosaurinae placement.

Cited by clades

• Avetheropoda

  Described a new theropod from the Callovian Balabansai Formation and recovered Carnosauria, uniting Megalosauroidea and Allosauroidea, rather than Avetheropoda.

• Metriacanthosauridae

  New Metriacanthosauridae-relevant theropod description with phylogeny recovering family as sister to Allosauria.