Lukousaurus

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Lukousaurus Fossil range: Late Triassic-Early Jurassic
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder:  ?Dinosauria Order:  ?Saurischia Suborder:  ?Theropoda Genus: Lukousaurus
Binomial name
Lukousaurus yini Young, 1948

Lukousaurus is a taxon based on most of a small skull’s snout, displaying distinctive lachrymal horns, found in the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic Fengjiahe 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.

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• Lukousaurus on The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia at Dino Russ's Lair
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