Dornraptor is a genus of averostran theropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian stage, around 190 million years ago).
It was an early-branching averostran theropod which lived in what is now southern England. The type species, D. normani, is based solely on some leg bones (a knee joint) once thought to belong to Scelidosaurus. An unpublished manuscript by Samuel Welles, H.P. Powell, and Stephan Pickering cited by Pickering (1995) coined "Merosaurus newmani" for BMNH 39496, distal end of a right femur and a proximal third of a right tibia, and GSM 109560, a partial left femur, but due to the manuscript being unpublished, "Merosaurus" remained informal. Carrano and Sampson (2004) considered the remains to be a basal tetanurine, and Baron (2024) finally erected the name Dornraptor normani for the material.[1][2]
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- ^ Carrano, Matthew T.; Sampson, Scott D., 2004. A review of coelophysoids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Jurassic of Europe, with comments on the late history of the Coelophysoidea. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Monatshefte. 2004 (9): 537–558. doi:10.1127/njgpm/2004/2004/537. ISSN 0028-3630.
- ^ Baron, Matthew G. (2024-04-29). "A new name for old bones: A reassessment of Early Jurassic theropod remains from Dorset, England". Palaeontologia Electronica. 27 (1): 1–12. doi:10.26879/1346. ISSN 1094-8074.
Pickering, S., 1995. "Jurassic Park: Unauthorized Jewish Fractals in Philopatry," A Fractal Scaling in Dinosaurology Project, 2nd revised printing, Capitola, California: 478 pp.
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