Alpkarakush

Alpkarakush
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, Callovian
Portrait of Alpkarakush
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: Metriacanthosauridae
Subfamily: Metriacanthosaurinae
Genus: Alpkarakush
Rauhut et al., 2024
Species:
A. kyrgyzicus
Binomial name
Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus
Rauhut et al., 2024

Alpkarakush is an extinct genus of metriacanthosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Jurassic Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan. The genus contains a single species, A. kyrgyzicus, known from a partial skeleton.[1]

  1. ^ Rauhut, Oliver W M; Bakirov, Aizek A; Wings, Oliver; Fernandes, Alexandra E; Hübner, Tom R (2024-08-01). "A new theropod dinosaur from the Callovian Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 201 (4). doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae090. ISSN 0024-4082.