Cruxicheiros newmanorum Benson and Radley 2010 (tetanuran theropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: R. B. J. Benson and J. D. Radley. 2010. A new large-bodied theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Warwickshire, United Kingdom. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55(1):35-42

Belongs to Cruxicheiros according to M. T. Carrano et al. 2012

See also Benson and Radley 2010, Rauhut et al. 2016 and Razzolini et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: WARMS G15770,, a limb element (partial right femur). Its type locality is Cross Hands Quarry, Little Compton (upper), which is in a Bathonian peritidal limestone in the Chipping Norton Limestone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Cross Hands Quarry, Little Compton (upper)

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