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Fulgurotherium Fulgurotherium australe Huene 1932

/fˌʊlɡjʊɹɹəðˈɜːɹiəm/ estimated
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · 100.5–93.9 Mya

Key Statistics

Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding

Where It Was Found

Country
Australia
Region
New South Wales
Formation
Griman Creek
Dig sites
3
distinct collections
Recorded finds in Australia. Present-day positions: the continents have moved since.

Overview

Fulgurotherium australe is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 100.5–93.9 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from New South Wales, Australia. It was named by Huene 1932. The species is represented by 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Fossil Record Completeness

How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record

~11%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Geologic Time

Where Fulgurotherium australe sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Fulgurotherium
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya

Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

These species share Fulgurotherium australe's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.

predator–prey
Rapator
Rapator ornitholestoides
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coexisted–with
Deinonychus
Deinonychus antirrhopus
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coexisted–with
Carcharodontosaurus
Carcharodontosaurus saharicus
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coexisted–with
Spinosaurus
Spinosaurus aegyptiacus
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coexisted–with
Sauropelta
Sauropelta edwardsorum
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coexisted–with
Acrocanthosaurus
Acrocanthosaurus atokensis
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same–clade
Fostoria
Fostoria dhimbangunmal
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same–clade
Weewarrasaurus
Weewarrasaurus pobeni
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