Kakuru kujani - Cretaceous Dinosaurs
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(kack-oo-roo)
"ancestral rainbow serpent"
Describer Molnar & Pledge, 1980
Also Known As --
Type of Species kujani
Order Saurischia
SubOrder Theropoda
InfraOrder ?Oviraptorosauria
Micro-Order --
Family
Size 8 feet (2.4 meters) long
Period Late Cretaceous, 99 million years ago
Fossilsite Australia
Diet Carnivore
Kakuru lived during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 99 million years ago in what is now Australia. Kakuru is known primarily from a single fossilized tibia, which had been unusually fossilized through a rare process in which the bone turned into opal. The opalized tibia was purchased by a gem shop in 1973 along with a foot claw that may have come from the same animal. Kakuru legs were long and slender and narrower than those fast running theropods. Kakuru received its name in 1980.
