Walgettosuchus

Taxobox
name = "Walgettosuchus"
fossil_range = Early Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Theropoda
unranked_familia = Tetanurae
familia = unknown
genus = "Walgettosuchus"
genus_authority = von Huene, 1932
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"W. woodwardi" von Huene, 1932 (type)

"Walgettosuchus" (meaning "Walgett crocodile") is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur. It was described in 1932 by Friedrich von Huene from an incomplete amphicoelous caudal vertebra centrum (BMNH R3717) found in the Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Griman Creek Formation, Lightning Ridge, New South Wales.von Huene, F. (1932). Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihte Entwicklung und Geschichte. "Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie" 1(4). 361 p. [German] ] For unknown reasons,Molnar, R.E. (1990). Problematic Theropoda: "Carnosaurs". In: Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H. (eds.). "The Dinosauria". Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press:Berkeley and Los Angeles, p. 306-317. ISBN 0-520-06727-4] he believed it had elongate prezygapophyses. He also suggested that if more material was known, it could prove to be synonymous with other Lightning Ridge "coelurosaurs" (i.e. "Rapator"; coelurosaur in the old sense of any small theropod).

In his 1990 review, Molnar noted that the type cannot be distinguished from tail vertebrae from ornithomimids or allosaurids, and considered it to be an indeterminate theropod.

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