Valdoraptor oweni

Era nu dinusauru carnivuru. Havi vissutu 'n Critacìu (Berrasianu e Valanginianu) circa 135 miliuni d'anni fa.

Appartininti ô terapodi. Li sò risti sugnu truvati 'n Nglaterra.

Ntê 1856 Richard Owen, 'n Nglaterra, crassificu û risti cumu Hylaeosaurus; 'nvici ntê 1881 Hulke pinzu a lu classifacari cumu terapodi. Ntê 1889 Richard Lydekker studià li risti pinzandu a ddari â Megalosaurus. Fredrich von Huene, ntê 1923 chiama chista spicìi ccu chistu numi Altispinax, ma era nu dinti. Finarminti ntê 1991 dinuminu li numi 'n Valdoraptor e li numi oweni è 'n unuri a lu primu cca scuprìi li risti fussili.

Classificazzioni scintifìca

Duminìu: Eukaryota
Regnu: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Classi: Reptilia
Suttuclassi:
Supirurdini: Dinosauria
Urdini: Saurischia
Sutturdini: Theropoda
Infraurdini:
Supirfamigghia:
Famigghia:
Suttufamigghia:
Giniri: Valdoraptor
Spicìi: V. oweni
Suttuspicìi:

Bibriugrafìa

Owen, 1856. Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden Formation. Part IV. Palaeontographical Society Monographs. 10, 1-26.
Hulke, 1881, Polacanthus foxii, a large undescribed Dinosaur from the Wealden-Formation, in the Isle of Wight: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, v. CLVXXII, p. 653-667. .
Lydekker, 1889. On the remains and affinities of five genera of Mesozoic reptiles. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 45, 41-59.
Lydekker, 1890. Contributions to our Knowledge of the dinosaurs of the Wealden and the sauropterygians of the Purbeck and Oxford Clay. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 36-53.
Huene, 1923. Carnivorous Saurischia in Europe since the Triassic. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. 34: 449-458.
Huene, 1926. The carnivorous Saurischia in the Jura and Cretaceous formations, principally in Europe. Revista del Museo de La Plata. 29, 1-167.
Olshevsky, 1991.A Revision of the Parainfraclass Archosauria Cope, 1869, Excluding the Advanced Crocodylia. Mesozoic Meanderings. 2, iv + 196 pp.
Holtz, Molnar and Currie, 2004. Basal Tetanurae. In Weishampel, Dodson and Osmolska. The Dinosauria Second Edition. University of California Press. 861 pp.
Naish, 2007. The large theropods Becklespinax and Valdoraptor from the Lower Cretaceous of England. SVPCA 2007, Abstracts Programme.
Naish and Martill, 2007. Dinosaurs of Great Britain and the role of the Geological Society of London in their discovery: Basal Dinosauria and Saurischia. Journal of the Geological Society, London. 164, 493-510.