Genus: Fulgurotherium HUENE, 1932 (nomen dubium)
Etymology: Latin, fulgur “lighting," and Greek, therion, “Beast”, Lightning beast.
= Fulgotherium WEISHAMPEL & HEINRICH, 1992 (sic)

Species: australe HUENE, 1932
Etymology: Latin, australis, "south." In reference to Australia.

Holotype: BMNH R3719

Locality: Lightning Ridge opal Field, New South Wales State, Australia.

Horizon: Wallangulla Sandstone Member, Griman Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material: Femur.

Cast: QM F10936

Referred material:

QM F10220: Cast of an almost complete right femur.

QM F10221: Cast of distal 2/3 of a right femur.

AM F66764: The proximal 1/5 of a right femur.

AM F66765: The distal 4/5 of a right femur.

AM F66775: A segment of the shaft of a left femur.

AM F66771: Proximal half of a scapula.

 


Locality: Grawin opal Field, 20 km south-west of Lighting Ridge, New South Wales State, Australia.

Horizon: Wallangulla Sandstone Member, Griman Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Cretaceous.

Material:

QM F12673: Cast of the distal 1/3 of a right femur.

 


RICH & VICKERS-RICH, 1989

Locality: Eagles Nest, Victoria State, Australia.

Horizon: Wonthaggi Formation, Strzelecki or Korrumbura Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm, Middle Late Jurassic to Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material:

NMV P150054: Right femur lacking only the condyles and proximal regions of the head and greater and lesser trochanters.

 

NMV P185948: Anterointernal 3rd of midshaft with a capitulum of right femur.

NMV P187094: Partial left femur with capitulum, partial 4th trochanter, and distal end; shaft between capitulum and 4th trochanter missing.

RICH & VICKERS-RICH, 1999

NMV P186403: Femur.

 


Locality: The Arch near Kilkunda, Victoria State, Australia.Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous.

Material:

NMV P164998: Left femur lacking head and medial half of greater and lesser trochanter.

 

Locality: Dinosaur Cove East, Victoria State, Australia.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous.

Material:

NMV P177935: Right femur lacking the distal fourth of the bone with much of the papitulum abrade away.

NMV P185961: Left femur fragment with capitulum, greater and lesser trochanters abraded, missing 4th trochanter and all of the bone distal to the point.

RICH & VICKERS-RICH, 1999

NMV P186326: Femur.

 


RICH & VICKERS-RICH, 1999

Locality: Cape Patterson, Victoria State, Australia.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Cretaceous.

Material:

NMV P156980: Femur.

 


Locality: Slippery Rock, Dinosaur Cove, Victoria State, Australia.

Horizon: Eumeralla Formation, Otway Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Latest Aptian-Early Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material:

NMV P186102: Femur.

 

 

Locality: 3-4 km east of Cape Patterson, Victoria State, Australia.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Cretaceous.

Material:

NMV P186184: Femur.

 


Locality: Flat Rocks fossil vertebrate site, 38°39’40+-02”S, 145°40’52+-03”E (World Geodetic Standard, 1984) on the shore platform of the Bunurong Marine Park, Victoria, Australia.

Horizon: Wonthaggi Formation, Strezelecki Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Aptian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Late Early Cretaceous.

Material:

NMV P186468, 198888, 198889, 198931, 199063, 198981, 198981a, 198982, 199022, 199091, 199138, 199146, 208159, 208231: Femurs.