Eoabelisaurus mefi Pol and Rauhut 2012 (ceratosaur)

Reptilia - Theropoda

Full reference: D. Pol and O. W. M. Rauhut. 2012. A Middle Jurassic abelisaurid from Patagonia and the early diversification of theropod dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 279:3170-3175

Belongs to Eoabelisaurus according to E. B. Machado et al. 2013

See also Delcourt 2018, Hendrickx and Mateus 2014, Novas et al. 2013 and Pol and Rauhut 2012

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MPEF PV 3990, a partial skeleton (an almost complete skeleton, including the posterior half of the skull, five cervical and nine dorsal vertebrae, complete sacrum, 27 caudal vertebrae, left and ). Its type locality is Jugo Loco site, near Cerro Cóndor, which is in an Aalenian/Bajocian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Cañadón Asfalto Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Jugo Loco site, near Cerro Cóndor

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