Lukousaurus
| Lukousaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic
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| Genus: | Lukousaurus
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| Lukousaurus yini Young, 1948
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Lukousaurus is a taxon based on most of a small skull’s snout, displaying distinctive lachrymal horns, found in the Early Jurassic-age Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan, China and was described by Chung Chien Young in 1948. The generic name refers to the Lugou Bridge, lit. “crossroads”, near Beijing, where the Sino-Japanese War started. L. yini is tentatively classified as a theropod dinosaur by some allied to ceratosaurs, by others a coelurosaur. Its skull is rather robust for its size though the teeth were described by the author as typically theropodan. It may, however, be a crurotarsan.
External links
- Lukousaurus at Dinosauria.com
- Lukousaurus at Thescelosaurus!
- Lukousaurus at DinoData
- Theropod Database Blog post about Lukousaurus
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