Fukuiraptor

Fukuiraptor
	Skeleton reconstruction of Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis in the "Dinosaur Museum of Fukui Prefecture"
Temporal occurrence
	Lower Cretaceous ( Albium )
	112.9 to 100.5 million years
Locations
	Japan;
Systematics
	Lizard dinosaur (Saurischia)
	Theropoda
	Carnosauria
	Allosauroidea
	Megaraptora
	Fukuiraptor
Scientific name
	Fukuiraptor
	Azuma & Currie , 2000
Art
	Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis;

Fukuiraptor is a genus of theropod dinosaur . The carnivore foundin Japan was describedby Azuma and Currie in 2000. Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis is the only known species . A complete skeleton is in the "Fukui Prefecture Dinosaur Museum", Japan.

features

Fukuiraptor was about 4.2 meters long with an estimated weight of 175 kilograms. The large, curved claws on the hands are striking . This and other properties suggest that Fukuiraptor must have been an active hunter. Like all theropods , he moved bipedally .

Discovery and naming

The fossils of fukuiraptor were approximately 113 to 100 million years old rocks in the Kita Dani Formation in Japan discovered. Parts of the skull , the spine and the front and rear extremities could be recovered. The naming of the dinosaur refers to the place where it was found. The Latin name would have to be translated into German as “robbers from Fukui”.

Systematics

Originally, Fukuiraptor was assigned to Carnosauria by Azuma and Currie in 2000 . In 2008, Dong assigned Fukuiraptor to the Dromaeosauridae family . Benson et al. however, assigned him to the Megaraptora in 2010 .

Individual evidence

^ Gregory S. Paul: The Princeton Field Guide To Dinosaurs , 2010. ISBN 978-0-691-13720-9 , p. 98 online
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Yoichi Azuma, Philip J. Currie : A new carnosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan. In: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. Vol. 37, No. 12, 2000, ISSN 0008-4077 , pp. 1735–1753, doi : 10.1139 / e00-064 , digitized version (PDF; 4.61 MB) ( Memento from July 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).

^ Catalog of the museum in Fukui, (English) . Fukui Prefecture Dinosaur Museum. Retrieved August 2, 2014.

↑ Zhiming Dong : Dinosaurs in Asia. In: Abstracts of the International Dinosaur Symposium in Fukui 2008: Recent progress of the Study on Asian Dinosaurs and Paleoenvironments. Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Fukui 2008, pp. 5-18.

^ Roger BJ Benson, Matthew T. Carrano, Stephen L. Brusatte: A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic. In: Natural Sciences . Vol. 97, No. 1, 2010, pp. 71-78, doi : 10.1007 / s00114-009-0614-x .

[paul_10-1] Gregory S. Paul: The Princeton Field Guide To Dinosaurs , 2010. ISBN 978-0-691-13720-9 , p. 98 online

[Azuma_und_Currie-2] A ^b ^c ^d Yoichi Azuma, Philip J. Currie : A new carnosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan. In: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. Vol. 37, No. 12, 2000, ISSN 0008-4077 , pp. 1735–1753, doi : 10.1139 / e00-064 , digitized version (PDF; 4.61 MB) ( Memento from July 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).

[MuseumFukui-3] Catalog of the museum in Fukui, (English) . Fukui Prefecture Dinosaur Museum. Retrieved August 2, 2014.

[4] Zhiming Dong : Dinosaurs in Asia. In: Abstracts of the International Dinosaur Symposium in Fukui 2008: Recent progress of the Study on Asian Dinosaurs and Paleoenvironments. Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Fukui 2008, pp. 5-18.

[5] Roger BJ Benson, Matthew T. Carrano, Stephen L. Brusatte: A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic. In: Natural Sciences . Vol. 97, No. 1, 2010, pp. 71-78, doi : 10.1007 / s00114-009-0614-x .