New theropod (Tetanurae: Avetheropoda) material from the 'mid'-Cretaceous Griman Creek Formation at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia [corrected].

ABSTRACT: The limited fossil record of Australian Cretaceous theropods is dominated by megaraptorids, reported from associated and isolated material from the Early Cretaceous of Victoria and the 'Mid'-Cretaceous of central-north New South Wales and central Queensland. Here, we report on new postcranial theropod material from the early Late Cretaceous Griman Creek Formation at Lightning Ridge. Among this new material is an associated set consisting of two anterior caudal vertebrae and a pubic peduncle of the ilium, to which a morphologically similar partial vertebral centra from a separate locality is tentatively referred. These elements display a combination of characteristics that are present in megaraptorid and carcharodontosaurid theropods, including camellate internal organization of the vertebr

SUBMITTER: Brougham T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6366187 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature