Diluvicursor pickeringi Herne et al. 2018 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Full reference: M. C. Herne, A. M. Tait, V. Weisbecker, M. Hall, J. P. Nair, M. Cleeland, and S. W. Salisbury. 2018. A new small-bodied ornithopod (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from a deep, high-energy Early Cretaceous river of the Australian-Antarctic rift system. PeerJ 5:e4113:1-77

Belongs to Diluvicursor according to M. C. Herne et al. 2018

See also Bell et al. 2019, Bell et al. 2018, Duncan et al. 2021, Herne et al. 2019 and Rotatori et al. 2022

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NMV P221080, a partial skeleton (partial postcranium, comprising an almost complete caudal vertebral series, the distal ends of the right tibia and fibula, complete right tarsus and partial rig). Its type locality is Eric the Red West, which is in an Aptian/Albian channel lag sandstone in the Eumeralla Formation of Australia.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Eric the Red West

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