Lukousaurus is an archosauromorph based on most of a small skull's snout, displaying distinctive lachrymal horns, found in the Early Jurassic-age Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan, China.[1]
Description[]
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 crurotarsan or a primitive crocodilian.[2] Whatever Lukousaurus was, it was definitely an archosauromorph.[3][4]
History[]
The genus is described by Chung Chien Young in 1940. The generic name refers to the Lugou Bridge, lit. “crossroads”, near Beijing, where the Sino-Japanese War started. In either the late 1930s or in 1940, the front half of a fossilized skull, which became the holotype of Lukousaurus yini, was discovered in Dahungtien, China.[1]
Gallery[]
Lukousaurus/Gallery
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1755-6724.1940.mp203-4003.x
- ↑ http://theropoddatabase.blogspot.com/2011/05/lukousaurus-in-nesbitts-matrix.html
- ↑ https://sjg.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s00015-012-0094-4
- ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257316066_CT_scanning_rapid_prototyping_and_re-examination_of_a_partial_skull_of_a_basal_crocodylomorph_from_the_Late_Triassic_of_Germany