Fukuiraptor Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Reconstructed skeleton | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | †Megaraptora |
Genus: | †Fukuiraptor Azuma & Currie, 2000 |
Type species | |
†Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis Azuma & Currie, 2000
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Fukuiraptor ("thief of Fukui") was a medium-sized megaraptoran theropod dinosaur of the Early Cretaceous epoch (either Barremian or Aptian) that lived in what is now Japan.[1] Fukuiraptor is known from the Kitadani Formation[2] and possibly also the Sebayashi Formation.[3]
CurrieAzuma-2006
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).