Valdoraptor

In Depth        When first described in‭ ‬1858‭ ‬by Richard Owen,‭ ‬the type specimen of Valdoraptor was interpreted as a foot belonging to the armoured dinosaur Hylaeosaurus.‭ ‬In‭ ‬1881,‭ ‬John Hulke scored nearer the mark by identifying the foot as belonging to a theropod dinosaur.‭ ‬From here the foot was attributed to Megalosaurus by Richard Lydekker … Read more