Noasaurus Bonaparte and Powell 1980 (ceratosaur)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Noasauridae

Full reference: J. F. Bonaparte and J. E. Powell. 1980. A continental assemblage of tetrapods from the Upper Cretaceous beds of El Brete, northwestern Argentina (Sauropoda-Coelurosauria-Carnosauria-Aves). Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 139:19-28

Parent taxon: Noasaurinae according to O. W. M. Rauhut and M. T. Carrano 2016

See also Agnolin and Chiarelli 2010, Agnolín et al. 2003, Allain et al. 2014, Bonaparte 1984, Bonaparte 1991, Bonaparte 1996, Bonaparte et al. 1990, Bonaparte and Powell 1980, Candeiro and Martinelli 2005, Carrano et al. 2011, Carrano et al. 2002, Carrano et al. 2004, Carrano and Sampson 2008, Carroll 1988, Coria et al. 2006, Coria and Salgado 2000, Delcourt 2018, Ezcurra et al. 2010, Furtado et al. 2013, Gianechini et al. 2015, Hendrickx and Mateus 2014, Lamanna et al. 2002, Molnar 1980, Novas 1991, Novas 1992, Novas 1997, Novas 1997, Novas et al. 2004, Novas et al. 2013, Novas et al. 2006, Paul 1988, Rauhut 2003, Rowe et al. 1997, Salgado et al. 2009, Sampson et al. 1998, Sereno 1997, Sereno et al. 2004, Tortosa et al. 2014 and Tykoski and Rowe 2004

Sister taxa: Masiakasaurus, Velocisaurus, Vespersaurus

Subtaxa: Noasaurus leali

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Estancia "El Brete" (PVL) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

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