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''Lourinhanosaurus'' (meaning "Lourinhã () lizard") was a carnivorous theropod dinosaur genus that lived during the Late Jurassic Period (Kimmeridgian/Tithonian). Its first remains were found at Peralta, near Lourinhã, Portugal in 1982, but were not described until 1998, by Portuguese paleontologist Octávio Mateus.〔Mateus O (1998). Lourinhanosaurus antunesi, a new Upper Jurassic allosauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Lourinhã (Portugal). Memórias da Academia de Ciências de Lisboa 37: 111–124.〕 Its type (and to date only) species is ''L. antunesi'', in honour of Portuguese paleontologist Miguel Telles Antunes. ==Material== To date, the most complete specimen of ''L. antunesi'' found is a partial skeleton. The holotype, ML 370, consists of the remains of six cervical vertebrae with six ribs, five sacral vertebrae with ribs, 14 caudal vertebrae, eight chevrons, both femora, right tibia and fibula, one metatarsus, two ilia and both pubes and ischia, as well as an associated 32 gastroliths. A femur (ML 555) found at Porto das Barcas (Lourinhã Formation; Late Jurassic) has also been referred to ''L. antunesi''. Besides these specimens, around 100 eggs (specimen number ML 565), some of them containing embryonic bones, have been found in 1993 at the nearby beach of Paimogo〔"Upper Jurassic theropod dinosaur embryos from Lourinhã (Portugal)" I Mateus, H Mateus, MT Antunes, O Mateus, P Taquet, V Ribeiro, G Manuppella (1998). Memórias da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa 37, 101-110.〕 These were soon assigned to ''L. antunesi''. Both the skeleton and the eggs are on display at Museu da Lourinhã. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lourinhanosaurus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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