Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus Rauhut et al. 2024 (allosauroid)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Metriacanthosauridae

Full reference: O. W. M. Rauhut, A. A. Bakirov, O. Wings, A. E. Fernandes, and T. R. Hübner. 2024. A new theropod dinosaur from the Callovian Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 201(zlae090):1-51

Belongs to Alpkarakush according to O. W. M. Rauhut et al. 2024

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: See Technical comments, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is FTU-1, Uurusai Valley, which is in a Callovian terrestrial sandstone/mudstone in the Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at FTU-1, Uurusai Valley

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