Weewarrasaurus
Genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Weewarrasaurus is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of the Griman Creek Formation near Lightning Ridge, in New South Wales, Australia. The type and only species is W. pobeni, known from the holotype, an isolated dentary preserved in opal, as well as a secondary referred dentary. It is thought to have co-existed with multiple other ornithopods of different sizes and lineages.[1]
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Weewarrasaurus | |
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Photos and 3D renders of the holotype | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Genus: | †Weewarrasaurus Bell et al., 2018 |
Type species | |
†Weewarrasaurus pobeni Bell et al., 2018 |
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