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Fulgurotherium
''Fulgurotherium'' (meaning "''Lightning Beast''") is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Albian). It lived in what is now Australia.
The type species, ''Fulgurotherium australe'', was named by Friedrich von Huene in 1932.〔F. v. Huene, 1932, "Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte", ''Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie, serie 1'' 4(1-2): 1-361〕 The genus name is derived from Latin ''fulgur'', "lightning", and Greek ''therion'', "beast", a reference to the Lightning Ridge site in New South Wales. The specific name means "southern" in Latin. The holotype is BMNH R.3719, the opalised lower end of a femur, indicating a total body length of 1 to 1.5 metres.
Von Huene thought it was a theropod, a member of the Ornithomimidae.〔F. v. Huene, 1944, "Aussichtsreiche Fundgegenden für künftige Sauriergrabungen", ''Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte, Abteilung B'' 88: 441-451〕 It has later been described as a hypsilophodont, a primitive ornithopod.〔R. E. Molnar and P. M. Galton, 1986, "Hypsilophodontid dinosaurs from Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia", ''Géobios'' 19(2): 231-239〕 However, this was based on a contentious reference of bones found in the Dinosaur Cave, leading to a possible confusion between multiple species of Euornithopoda. Most researchers today consider it a ''nomen dubium''.
Its name is an unusual example of a name in -''therium'' used for an animal which is not a mammal.
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