Diluvicursor

flood runner

• diluvium · Latin · flood
• cursor · Latin · runner

The name combines the Latin "diluvium" (flood) and "cursor" (runner), giving "flood runner". It refers to the fossil skeleton having been buried in what looks like a flood-deposited channel setting, and to its build as a small, agile, running ornithopod. The species name, D. pickeringi, honours David Pickering.

Named by

Herne et al.

Year named

2018

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Aptian

Found in

Eumeralla Formation, Victoria, Australia

A small ornithopod dinosaur. The type species is Diluvicursor pickeringi. It is known from a partial skeleton, including a nearly complete tail, found near Cape Otway.