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| Name | Alwalkeria | |||
| Order | Saurischia | |||
| Class | Theropoda | |||
| Name Translation | for Alick Walker | |||
| Period | Late Triassic 228-204 Million Years Ago | |||
| Location | India | |||
| Diet | Carnivore | |||
| Size | 1 m long, 0.3 m tall, 3 kg in weight | |||
Alwalkeria is a very primitive theropod from late Triassic India. It was about 1.6 feet (50 centimeters) long and weighed about as much as a turkey.
it was named after Alice Walker by Walkeria Chatterjee and Creisler in 1993. Its fossils were discovered in Southern India, Maleri Formation. It was a bipedal carnivore. It had a long tail which it used to use to ambush its prey and to run fast.
Etymology[]
The taxon was originally named Walkeria maleriensis in 1987, in honor of British paleontologist Alick Walker. The taxon's name was found to be already occupied by an genus of bryozoan, and has been renamed Alwalkeria malerienis adding two letters to the first name in 1994.
Description[]
The only known specimen of Alwalkeria, is A. malerienis. Even though material of A. maleriensis is limited, the teeth shape strongly resemble these teeth of Eoraptor. Other similarities in the skull of the two animals also link them on morphological grounds.
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