page_title: Lourinhanosaurus
section_title: Discovery and Naming
hierarchical_section_title: Lourinhanosaurus / Discovery and Naming
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Fossil of Lourinhanosaurus, an extinct carnosaur- Took the photo at Fossil Show, Munich
context_page_description: Lourinhanosaurus was a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic Period in Portugal. It is one of many large predators discovered at the Lourinhã Formation and probably competed with coeval Torvosaurus gurneyi, Allosaurus europaeus, and Ceratosaurus.
context_section_description: Its first remains were found at Peralta, near Lourinhã, Portugal in 1982, but were not described until 1998, by Portuguese paleontologist Octávio Mateus. Its type (and to date only) species is L. antunesi, in honour of Portuguese paleontologist Miguel Telles Antunes.
  To date, the most complete specimen of L. antunesi found is a partial skeleton. The holotype, ML 370, consists of the remains of six cervical vertebrae with six ribs, five sacral vertebrae with ribs, 14 caudal vertebrae, eight chevrons, both femora, right tibia and fibula, one metatarsus, two ilia and both pubes and ischia, as well as an associated 32 gastroliths. A femur (ML 555) found at Porto das Barcas (Lourinhã Formation; Late Jurassic) has also been referred to L. antunesi.
  Besides these specimens, around 100 eggs (specimen number ML 565), some of them containing embryonic bones, have been found in 1993 at the nearby beach of Paimogo. These were in 2001 assigned to L. antunesi.
  Both the skeleton and the eggs are on display at Museu da Lourinhã.
caption: Embryo restoration and bone fragments
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