Bradycneme
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bradycneme | |
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B. draculae speculatively restored as an alvarezsaurid | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Alvarezsauridae |
Genus: | †Bradycneme Harrison & Walker, 1975 |
Species: | †B. draculae |
Binomial name | |
†Bradycneme draculae Harrison & Walker, 1975 | |
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Bradycneme (meaning "ponderous leg") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Sânpetru Formation of the Hațeg Basin, Transylvania, Romania. The genus contains a single species, Bradycneme draculae, known only from a partial right lower leg (specimen BMNH A1588), which its original describers believed came from a giant owl.