Diluvicursor

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Diluvicursor
Temporal range:
Ma
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Skeletal diagram showing the remains of Diluvicursor's holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: †Ornithischia
Clade: †Ornithopoda
Clade: †Elasmaria
Genus: †Diluvicursor
Herne et al., 2018
Type species
†Diluvicursor pickeringi
Herne et al., 2018

Diluvicursor ("flood runner") is a genus of small

postcranium discovered in 2005 from the Eumeralla Formation, are known, and they were named in early 2018.[1]

Discovery and naming

Map showing the location of the Eumeralla Formation, EF in 2, Diluvicursor's locality, and the geography of Australia in the Early Cretaceous

The remains of Diluvicursor were discovered in 2005 in the

NMV P221081, was also found at the site. In a 2013 review of ornithopods from Victoria, it was given a diagnosis and preliminary description.[1][2][3]

The type specimen, preserving a partial tail and hindlimb

The specimens were described and named online, through use of

palaeontology in Australia, and who died at the time of the preparation of the study.[1][4]

The

metatarsus, the first toe and the first phalanges of the second, third and fourth toes. This specimen is preserved on a stone plate, separated into five blocks. It would have been deposited in a deep and high-energy river, the carcass thought to have been caught in a trap of plant debris on a standing tree stump. It represents a juvenile individual. Specimen NMV P229456, a partial tail vertebra of a larger individual, found nearby in the same deposit, was referred to the taxon.[1]

Description

Life restoration of Diluvicursor in its environment

The

autapomorphies, unique traits, were identified in the holotype.[1]

Phylogeny

The cladogram below results from analysis by Herne et al., 2019.[5]

Ornithischia

See also

References

  1. ^
    PMID 29340228
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  2. ^ Rich T.H., Vickers-Rich P., Flannery T.F., Pickering D., Kool L., Tait A.M., Fitzgerald E.M.G. 2009. "A fourth Australian Mesozoic mammal locality". Museum of Northern Arizona, Bulletin 65: 677–681
  3. ^ a b Herne, M. (2013). "Anatomy, systematics and phylogenetic relationships of the Early Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaurs of the Australian-Antarctic rift system" PhD Thesis. The University of Queensland
  4. ^ Kool, Lesley. "Farewell David Pickering". Dinosaur Dreaming. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
  5. doi:10.1017/jpa.2018.95
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External links
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