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Carnotaurus

Reptilia - Abelisauridae

Taxonomy
Carnotaurus was named by Bonaparte (1985). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Abelisaurinae by Paul (1988); to Neoceratosauria by Pérez-Moreno et al. (1994); to Carnotaurinae by Sereno (1998), Sereno et al. (2004), Tykoski and Rowe (2004), Juárez Valieri and Fiorelli (2004), Juárez Valieri et al. (2004) and Juárez Valieri et al. (2007); to Brachyrostra by Canale et al. (2008), Ezcurra et al. (2010) and Novas et al. (2013); to Carnotaurini by Candeiro and Martinelli (2005), Coria et al. (2006), Juárez Valieri et al. (2011) and Tortosa et al. (2014); to Abelisauridae by Bonaparte (1985), Bonaparte (1986), Kurzanov (1989), Bonaparte et al. (1990), Le Loeuff and Buffetaut (1991), Bonaparte (1991), Molnar (1992), Novas (1992), Currie and Zhao (1994), Frey and Martill (1995), Bonaparte (1996), Chatterjee and Rudra (1996), Sampson et al. (1996), Padian (1997), Rowe et al. (1997), Novas (1997), Sereno (1997), Sampson et al. (1997), Sampson et al. (1998), Prasad and Sahni (1999), Knoll et al. (1999), Holtz (2000), Coria and Salgado (2000), Carrano et al. (2002), Rauhut (2003), Martínez et al. (2004), Coria and Arcucci (2004), Novas et al. (2004), Martínez and Novas (2006), Novas et al. (2006), Candeiro et al. (2006), Malkani (2006), Smith (2007), Sampson and Witmer (2007), Carrano and Sampson (2008), Sereno et al. (2008), Prasad and Sahni (2009), Smith et al. (2010), Novas et al. (2010), Agnolin and Chiarelli (2010), Paulina Carabajal (2011), Ruiz et al. (2011), Paulina Carabajal and Currie (2012), Cau et al. (2012), Candeiro et al. (2012), Furtado et al. (2013), Gianechini et al. (2015), White et al. (2015) and Ratsinbaholison et al. (2016); and to Furileusauria by Filippi et al. (2016) and Delcourt (2018).

Species

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1985Carnotaurus Bonaparte p. 149 fig. 1
1986Carnotaurus Bonaparte p. 74
1988Carnotaurus Paul p. 284
1989Carnotaurus Kurzanov p. 4
1990Carnotaurus Bonaparte et al. pp. 2-3
1991Carnotaurus Bonaparte p. 4
1991Carnotaurus Le Loeuff and Buffetaut p. 592
1992Carnotaurus Molnar p. 265
1992Carnotaurus Novas p. 142
1994Carnotaurus Currie and Zhao
1994Carnotaurus Pérez-Moreno et al. p. 184 fig. 1
1995Carnotaurus Frey and Martill p. 408
1996Carnotaurus Bonaparte p. 89
1996Carnotaurus Chatterjee and Rudra p. 517
1996Carnotaurus Sampson et al. p. 604
1997Carnotaurus Novas p. 1
1997Carnotaurus Padian p. 532
1997Carnotaurus Rowe et al. p. 109
1997Carnotaurus Sampson et al. p. 73A
1997Carnotaurus Sereno p. 455
1998Carnotaurus Sampson et al. p. 1050 fig. 3
1998Carnotaurus Sereno p. 64
1999Carnotaurus Knoll et al. p. 106
1999Carnotaurus Prasad and Sahni p. 382
2000Carnotaurus Coria and Salgado
2000Carnotaurus Holtz, Jr. pp. 16-17 fig. 5
2002Carnotaurus Carrano et al.
2003Carnotaurus Rauhut p. 33
2004Carnotaurus Coria and Arcucci p. 600
2004Carnotaurus Juárez Valieri and Fiorelli p. 36
2004Carnotaurus Martínez et al. p. 577
2004Carnotaurus Novas et al. p. 68
2004Carnotaurus Sereno et al. p. 1329 fig. 4
2004Carnotaurus Tykoski and Rowe p. 49
2005Carnotaurus Candeiro and Martinelli p. 9
2006Carnotaurus Candeiro et al. p. 935
2006Carnotaurus Coria et al. pp. 1287-1288 fig. 6
2006Carnotaurus Malkani p. 8
2006Carnotaurus Martínez and Novas p. 247
2006Carnotaurus Novas et al. p. 63
2007Carnotaurus Juárez Valieri et al. p. 63
2007Carnotaurus Sampson and Witmer p. 33
2007Carnotaurus Smith p. 103
2008Carnotaurus Canale et al.
2008Carnotaurus Carrano and Sampson pp. 199-200 fig. 4
2008Carnotaurus Sereno et al. p. 4
2009Carnotaurus Prasad and Sahni p. 372
2010Carnotaurus Agnolin and Chiarelli p. 297
2010Carnotaurus Ezcurra et al. p. 14 fig. 8
2010Carnotaurus Novas et al. p. 48
2010Carnotaurus Smith et al. p. 928
2011Carnotaurus Juárez Valieri et al. p. 167
2011Carnotaurus Paulina Carabajal p. 793
2011Carnotaurus Ruiz et al. p. 1271
2012Carnotaurus Candeiro et al. p. 326
2012Carnotaurus Cau et al. p. 662
2012Carnotaurus Paulina Carabajal and Currie p. 96
2013Carnotaurus Furtado et al. p. 109
2013Carnotaurus Novas et al. p. 182
2014Carnotaurus Tortosa et al. p. 71
2015Carnotaurus Gianechini et al.
2015Carnotaurus White et al. p. 3
2016Carnotaurus Filippi et al. p. 217 fig. 9
2016Carnotaurus Ratsinbaholison et al. p. 281
2018Carnotaurus Delcourt p. 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Theropoda()
Neotheropoda
Ceratosauria()
superfamilyAbelisauroidea
familyAbelisauridae
Brachyrostra
Furileusauria
genusCarnotaurus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Carnotaurus Bonaparte 1985
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Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte 1985
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Maximum body mass: 3000 kgg
Minimum body mass: 1000 kgg
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoreo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2005-08-24 13:27:17
Modified: 2005-08-24 15:27:17
Source: g = genus, o = order
References: Peczkis 1995, Marsh 1875

Age range: Maastrichtian or 72.10000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0Argentina (Chubut) C. sastrei (25534)