Abelisauridae (meaning "Abel's lizards") is a family (or clade) of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaurs. Abelisaurids thrived during the Cretaceous period...
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Carnotaurus (category Abelisauridae)
of the La Colonia Formation. Carnotaurus is a derived member of the Abelisauridae, a group of large theropods that occupied the large predatorial niche...
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Ceratosauria includes three major clades: Ceratosauridae, Noasauridae, and Abelisauridae, found primarily (though not exclusively) in the Southern Hemisphere...
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Majungasaurus (category Abelisauridae)
ground. Majungasaurus is classified as a member of the theropod clade Abelisauridae, which is considered a family in Linnaean taxonomy. Along with the family...
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but also part of its upper margin, unlike in members of the related Abelisauridae. The quadrate bone, which was connected to the lower jaw at its bottom...
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Brachyrostra (category Abelisauridae)
(meaning "short snouts") is a clade within the theropod dinosaur family Abelisauridae. It includes the famous genera Carnotaurus, Aucasaurus, potentially...
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Rajasaurus (category Abelisauridae)
(Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar". Paleoenvironment and Paleoecology of Majungasaurus crenatissimus (Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from...
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portal Carcharodontosauridae/Abelisauridae Archived 2021-04-28 at the Wayback Machine Carcharodontosauridae/Abelisauridae 2 Archived 2021-04-30 at the...
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†Abelisauroidea (ceratosaurs exemplified by reduced arms and hands) †Abelisauridae (large abelisauroids with short arms and oftentimes elaborate facial...
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Abelisaurus (category Abelisauridae)
Bonaparte and Novas placed Abelisaurus in the newly created family Abelisauridae in 1985. They thought it was a member of the Carnosauria. Abelisaurus...
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Pycnonemosaurus (category Abelisauridae)
genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur that belonged to the family Abelisauridae. It was found in the Upper Cretaceous red conglomerate sandstones of...
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Majungasaurinae (category Abelisauridae)
family Abelisauridae, a Gondwanan clade known for their thick and often horned skulls and vestigial arms. The two subfamilies of Abelisauridae are Carnotaurinae...
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Ceratosauria+ †Parvorder Neoceratosauria+ †Superfamily Abelisauroidea †Family Abelisauridae †Family Noasauridae †Family Ceratosauridae Infraorder Tetanurae †Superfamily...
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Xenotarsosaurus (category Abelisauridae)
Carnotaurus sastrei, causing the describers to assign Xenotarsosaurus to the Abelisauridae, which has remained a common determination. However, it has also been...
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"Paleoenvironment and Paleoecology of Majungasaurus crenatissimus (Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar". In Sampson, Scott D.; Krause...
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Rugops (category Abelisauridae)
presence of which might possible be a synapomorphic characteristic of Abelisauridae, is absent and has a higher dental formulae than in any other abelisaurid...
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Eoabelisaurus (category Abelisauridae)
reduced forelimb proportions that show primitive characteristics of the Abelisauridae family. In 2009, Argentinian paleontologist Diego Pol discovered the...
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Spectrovenator (category Abelisauridae)
within Abelisauridae. Many characters supported its placement within Abelisauridae. The recovery of Spectrovenator as a basal member of Abelisauridae is consistent...
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Ilokelesia (category Abelisauridae)
above the orbit and a flange of the same bone inside the orbit, with Abelisauridae and Noasauridae; but it was considered to retain primitive features...
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morphology and variation in Majungasaurus crenatissimus (Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Sampson stresses the importance...
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Kryptops (category Abelisauridae)
abelisaurid ceratosaur. Many phylogenetic analyses place it within Abelisauridae, a group of theropod dinosaurs that existed during the Cretaceous, though...
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dinosaur Troodon". GAIA. 15: 159–166. Hendrickx, C; Mateus, O (2014). "Abelisauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal and dentition-based...
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occurred independently in four different lineages: Carcharodontosauridae, Abelisauridae, Tyrannosauridae, and Alvarezsauridae. Additionally, the second toes...
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have inhabited the southern continents during this time (namely the Abelisauridae, Carcharodontosauridae or Spinosauridae). Sereno suggested that it might...
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Quilmesaurus (category Abelisauridae)
Upper Cretaceous (Campanian stage) of Argentina. It was a member of Abelisauridae, closely related to genera such as Carnotaurus. The only known remains...
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bones, although debate exists over whether they had a keratin covering. Abelisauridae: Various abelisaurid theropods, such as Carnotaurus and Majungasaurus...
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Thanos simonattoi (category Abelisauridae)
recovered Thanos in a large polytomy with other brachyrostrans within the Abelisauridae. Their resulting cladogram is: Thanos shared only two synapomorphies...
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JSTOR 10.1525/j.ctt1pn61w.10. Mahler, Luke (March 11, 2005). "Record of Abelisauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Cenomanian of Morocco". Journal of...
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Indosaurus (category Abelisauridae)
to the Allosauridae, Indosaurus is today considered a member of the Abelisauridae family. It shows similarities to the other Abelisaurids from India,...
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