Lourinhanosaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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Reconstructed skeleton, Museum of Lourinhã | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Orionides |
Clade: | Avetheropoda |
Genus: | †Lourinhanosaurus Mateus, 1998 |
Species: | †L. antunesi
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Binomial name | |
†Lourinhanosaurus antunesi Mateus, 1998
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Lourinhanosaurus (meaning "Lourinhã lizard") was a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic Period (Kimmeridgian/Tithonian) in Portugal. It is one of many large predators discovered at the Lourinhã Formation and probably competed with coeval Torvosaurus gurneyi, Allosaurus europaeus, and Ceratosaurus.[1]