Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Megalosauroidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: †Spinosauridae
Subfamilia: †Spinosaurinae
Genus: †Irritator
Species: †Irritator challengeri
Name
Irritator challengeri Martill, Cruickshank, Frey, Small & Clarke, 1996
Holotype: SMNS 58022 (a skull)
Type locality: Brazil, Santana do Cariri, Romualdo Formation.
Etymology: from Professor Challenger, the ficticious hero and dinosaur discoverer of Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle's Lost World. [Martill et al., 1996: page 5]
Synonyms
References
Primary references
- Martill, D.M., Cruickshank, A.R.I., Frey, E., Small, P.G. & Clarke, M. 1996. A new crested maniraptoran dinosaur from the Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil. Journal of the Geological Society 153(1): 5–8. DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.153.1.0005 Preview (PDF).
Reference page. - Carrano, M.T., Benson, R.B.J. & Sampson, S.D. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2): 211–300. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2011.630927 ResearchGate Reference page.
Links
- Irritator challengeri – Taxon details on Fossilworks.
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