Species
Valid Extinct

Torvosaurus gurneyi

Hendrickx and Mateus 2014

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
7
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Megalosauroidea Superfamily
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Megalosauridae Family
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Megalosaurinae Subfamily
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Torvosaurus Genus
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Torvosaurus gurneyi Species
Fossil sites 7 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇵🇹 Portugal
7
Geological formations
Lourinhã
7
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
1
Kimmeridgian (154.8–149.2 Ma)
6
Bibliography
Original description
C. Hendrickx and O. Mateus. 2014. Torvosaurus gurneyi n. sp., the largest terrestrial predator from Europe, and a proposed terminology of the maxilla anatomy in nonavian theropods. PLoS ONE 9(3):e88905:1-25 DOI ↗
Bibliography (2)
C. Ribeiro and O. Mateus. 2018. Stratigraphic position of the Late Jurassic tetrapods from Porto Dinheiro (Lourinhã, Portugal). 1st Palaeontological Virtual Congress DOI ↗
C. Hendrickx and O. Mateus. 2014. Torvosaurus gurneyi n. sp., the largest terrestrial predator from Europe, and a proposed terminology of the maxilla anatomy in nonavian theropods. PLoS ONE 9(3):e88905:1-25 DOI ↗