Lukousaurus

Taxobox
name = "Lukousaurus"
fossil_range = Early Jurassic
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
infraclassic = Archosauromorpha
superordo = ?Dinosauria
ordo = ?Saurischia
subordo = ?Theropoda
infraorder = ?Ceratosauria
genus = "Lukousaurus"
binomial = "Lukousaurus yini"
binomial_authority = Young, 1948

"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 Lukou 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 non-dinosaurian crocodile-relative.

External links

* [http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a8cc33.htm "Lukousaurus" on The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia] at Dino Russ's Lair
* [http://www.dinosauria.com/dml/names/dinol.htm "Lukousaurus" at Dinosauria.com]
* [http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/ceratosauria.htm "Lukousaurus" at "Thescelosaurus"!]
* [http://www.dinodata.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6770&Itemid=67 "Lukousaurus" at DinoData]