Dornraptor

Dornraptor
Temporal range: Late Sinemurian, 194–192 Ma
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Known fossil material
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Averostra
Genus: †Dornraptor
Species:
†D. normani
Binomial name
†Dornraptor normani
Baron, 2024[2]
Synonyms
  • "Merosaurus newmani" Pickering, 1995[3][4]

Dornraptor (meaning "Dorset robber or thief") is an extinct genus of averostran, possibly stem tetanuran, theropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic (Late Sinemurian) of Charmouth, Dorset, England. The genus contains a single species, D. normani, known from a fragmentary knee joint and femur that were initially described by Sir Richard Owen as belonging to the early armored dinosaur Scelidosaurus.[5] Dornraptor lived in what is now England, along other theropods like Dracoraptor and Sarcosaurus.

Dornraptor was described as having come from the Blue Lias Formation in 2024, although previous authors proposed a corrected locality of the Charmouth Mudstone Formation.[1]

  1. ^ a b Choiniere, Jonah N.; Wills, Simon; Bennett, S. Christopher; Barrett, Paul M. (2020). "A small theropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Lias Group of Charmouth, Dorset". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 131 (6): 751–757. Bibcode:2020PrGA..131..751C. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2020.08.003. ISSN 0016-7878.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Dornraptor was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Pickering, S. (1995a). Jurassic Park: Unauthorized Jewish Fractals in Philopatry. A Fractal Scaling in Dinosaurology Project, 2nd revised printing. Capitola, California. 478 pp.
  4. ^ Pickering, S. (1995b). An extract from: Archosauromorpha: Cladistics and osteologies. A Fractal Scaling in Dinosaurology Project. 11 pp.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Owen1859 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).