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Fulgurotherium

Fulgurotherium - Meaning: Lightning Beast

Fulgurotherium (FULL-gur-oh-THEER-ee-um) is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous who lived in Australia around 110 million years ago. It was a hypsilophodont, a primitive ornithopod. The type species, Fulgurotherium australe, was formalized by Huene in 1932, but the dinosaur may be a chimera based on multiple species of ornithopods.

Dinosaur Fulgurotherium

Fulgurotherium Characteristics

Fulgurotherium was about 7 feet (2 metres) in length and 3 feet (1 metre) in height. Fulgurotherium, like most ornithopods, would almost certainly have been a plant-eater. Edible plants known from the Early Cretaceous of eastern Australia include ferns, horsetails and other low-growing Cretaceous plants. Fulgurotherium may have traveled in herds like other ornithopods common in Australia. Perhaps Fulgurotherium and other small ornithopods spent the coldest months of the year underground.

 

Fossil remains have been found in Australia. Small ornithopod fossil material from Victoria (from both the Otway and Strzelecki Groups, Flat Rocks and Dinosaur Cove respectively) includes incomplete skulls and a partial skeleton, some of which may also be Fulgurotherium.

Fulgurotherium was named by F.australe (1932).

FULGUROTHERIUM CLASSIFICATION:
Kingdom:
Animalia (animals)
Phylum:
Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain)
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Ornithischia
Suborder:
Cerapoda
Infraorder:
Ornithopoda
Family:
Hypsilophodontidae
Genus:
Fulgurotherium
Species:
F. australe
Binomial Name:
Fulgurotherium australe






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