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Alwalkeria (Chatterjee
& Creisler,
1994)
> Alwalkeria
maleriensis (Chatterjee,
1987)
>>Walkeria
>(Chatterjee,1968) W.maleriensis
(Chatterjee,
1968)
Partial skull, the remains of 28 vertebrae, partial femora
and an astragalus. The skull is 4 cm long and consists of a partial
left maxilla with the distal ends of both dentaries attached. A
fragmentary premaxilla lies adjecent to the distal tip of the
maxilla. The rostroventral margin of the antorbital fenestra lacks a
well-marked ventral margin. The dentary rami and slander, and the
teeth are slender and conical mesially and larger and laterally
compressed distally; there appear to be no marginal serrations, as
so commonly seen on theropod teeth. The vertebrae are poorly
preserved, similar in form to other theropods. The dorsals are
small, cylindrical, and amphiplatyan, and the bases of the neural
arches are excavated but lack pleurocoels. Two caudals are described
and indentified becoase of their chevron facets. The femoral head is
strongly inturned, the lesser trochanter is positioned low (one
quarter of the way down shaft), and the fourth trochanter is large
and crested. lying on the mediocaudal side of the shaft. The
astragalus is low and hemicylindral, with a low ascending process.
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