Fulgurotherium
Name:
Fulgurotherium
(Lighting beast).
Phonetic: Ful-go-fe-re-um.
Named By: Friedrich von Huene - 1932.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hypsilophodontidae?
Species: F. australe (type).
Diet: Herbivore?
Size: Unknown due to lack of remains, but very
roughly estimated at somewhere between 1 and 1.5 meters long.
Known locations: Australia, New South Wales,
Lightning Ridge - Griman Creek Formation.
Time period: Albian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial end of a femur
that has been turned to opal.
Fulgurotherium is a little known genus of Australian dinosaur that is also known from very little fossil material; at the time of writing, only a fragment of a femur. This femur seems to match up small ornithopod dinosaurs that range about one to one and a half meters long in size, but this figure is highly speculative. Because of the severe lack of fossils, Fulgurotherium is usually regarded as a Nomen dubium.
Further reading
- Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und
Geschichte [The fossil reptile order Saurischia, their development
and history]. - Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie,
serie 1 4(1-2):1-361. - Friedrich von Huene - 1932.
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