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Carnotaurus was a large but lightly built predator. [17] The only known individual was about 7.5–8 m (24.6–26.2 ft) in length, [H] [I] [19] making Carnotaurus one of the largest abelisaurids. [J] [K] [19] Ekrixinatosaurus and possibly Abelisaurus, which are highly incomplete, might have been similar or larger in size.
The specimen's considerable size places it within the range of known T. rex individuals, suggesting the presence of large tyrannosaurids during the Campanian stage (~75 million years ago), a temporal range earlier than the established Maastrichtian age (~68–66 Ma) for Tyrannosaurus rex. However, the exact age and provenance of CM 9401 remain ...
Abelisauridae (meaning "Abel's lizards") is a family (or clade) of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaurs.Abelisaurids thrived during the Cretaceous period, on the ancient southern supercontinent of Gondwana, and today their fossil remains are found on the modern continents of Africa and South America, as well as on the Indian subcontinent and the island of Madagascar.
Tyrannotitan (/ t ɪ ˌ r æ n ə ˈ t aɪ t ə n /; lit. ' tyrant titan ') is a genus of large theropod dinosaur belonging to the carcharodontosaurid family. It is known from a single species, T. chubutensis, which lived during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous period in what is now Argentina.
Carcharodontosaurids include some of the largest land predators ever known: Giganotosaurus, Mapusaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, and Tyrannotitan all rivaled Tyrannosaurus in size. Estimates give a maximum weight of 8–10 metric tons (8.8–11.0 short tons) for the largest carcharodontosaurids, while the smallest carcharodontosaurids were ...
Size is an important aspect of dinosaur paleontology, of interest to both the general public and professional scientists. Dinosaurs show some of the most extreme variations in size of any land animal group, ranging from tiny hummingbirds , which can weigh as little as two grams, to the extinct titanosaurs , such as Argentinosaurus and ...
Carnosauria is an extinct group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.. While Carnosauria was historically considered largely synonymous with Allosauroidea, some recent studies have revived Carnosauria as clade including both Allosauroidea and Megalosauroidea (which is sometimes recovered as paraphyletic with respect to Allosauroidea), and thus ...
Albertosaurines and tyrannosaurines share arms of about equal length, with the exception of Tarbosaurus, which had short arms for its size. [1] Size comparison of Albertosaurus with Gorgosaurus and a human. Albertosaurus was smaller than some other tyrannosaurids, such as Tarbosaurus and Tyrannosaurus.