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Lourinhanosaurus
Taxonomy
Lourinhanosaurus was named by Mateus (1998). Its type is Lourinhanosaurus antunesi. It was considered monophyletic by Mateus (1998).
It was assigned to Allosauroidea by Mateus (1998) and Allain (2001); to Carnosauria by Holtz et al. (2004); to Eustreptospondylidae by Mateus et al. (2006); to Megalosaurinidae by Mateus and Milàn (2010); to Coelurosauria by Carrano et al. (2012); and to Sinraptoridae by Naish and Martill (2007), Benson and Barrett (2009) and Hendrickx and Mateus (2012).
It was assigned to Allosauroidea by Mateus (1998) and Allain (2001); to Carnosauria by Holtz et al. (2004); to Eustreptospondylidae by Mateus et al. (2006); to Megalosaurinidae by Mateus and Milàn (2010); to Coelurosauria by Carrano et al. (2012); and to Sinraptoridae by Naish and Martill (2007), Benson and Barrett (2009) and Hendrickx and Mateus (2012).
Species
L. antunesi (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1998 | Lourinhanosaurus Mateus p. 112–113 figs. 1-5 |
| 2001 | Lourinhanosaurus Allain |
| 2004 | Lourinhanosaurus Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 74 |
| 2006 | Lourinhanosaurus Mateus et al. p. 123 |
| 2007 | Lourinhanosaurus Naish and Martill p. 502 |
| 2009 | Lourinhanosaurus Benson and Barrett p. 139 |
| 2010 | Lourinhanosaurus Mateus and Milàn p. 254 |
| 2012 | Lourinhanosaurus Carrano et al. p. 248 fig. 7 |
| 2012 | Lourinhanosaurus Hendrickx and Mateus p. 101 |
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| O. Mateus 1998 | As shown below, the Peralta (Lourinhã) dinosaur can be assigned as Allosauroidea. This specimen differs from all the others in the group because all vertebral centra are longer than tall, the neural spines of the anterior caudal vertebrae with a well-developed spike-like anterior process, the pubic blade perforated by a large vertical ellipsoidal foramen, and the lesser trochanter is well separated from the main body axis of the femur in lateral view. These characters point out to a new genus to which the name Lourinhanosaurus antunesi is given. |