Genus
Valid Extinct

Abelisaurus

Bonaparte 1984
Etymology Le genre est nommé d’après le Professeur Roberto Abel, qui découvrit le spécimen, et du Grec ''sauros'', lézard.

Abelisaurus is a genus of predatory abelisaurid theropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian) of what is now South America. It was a bipedal carnivore that probably reached about 7.4 metres in length, although this is uncertain as it is known from only one partial skull.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Abelisaurus
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Reconstruction of the Abelisaurus skull with original bones of the holotype. Museo Provincial Carlos Ameghino, Cipolletti, Argentina. Scale = 10 cm © Christophe Hendrickx · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Ceratosauria Suborder
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Abelisauridae Family
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Brachyrostra Unranked clade
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Furileusauria Unranked clade
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Abelisaurinae Subfamily
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Abelisaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇷 Argentina
1
Geological formations
Allen
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Abelisaurus comahuensis 72 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
J. F. Bonaparte. 1984. I dinosauri dell’Argentina [. Sulle Orme dei Dinosauri
Bibliography (1)
J. F. Bonaparte and F. E. Novas. 1985. Abelisaurus comahuensis, n.g., n.sp., Carnosauria del Crétacico Tardio de Patagonia [Abelisaurus comahuensis, n.gen., n.sp., Carnosauria from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia]. Ameghiniana 21(2-4):259-265