†family Noasauridae Bonaparte and Powell 1980 (ceratosaur)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Noasauridae

Synonym: Velocisauridae Bonaparte 1991

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: Ceratosauria according to S. F. Poropat et al. 2020

See also Agnolin and Chiarelli 2010, Agnolín et al. 2003, Baiano et al. 2020, Bonaparte 1991, Bonaparte 1991, Bonaparte et al. 1990, Bonaparte and Powell 1980, Candeiro and Martinelli 2005, Carrano et al. 2011, Carrano et al. 2004, Carrano and Sampson 2008, Coria et al. 2006, Coria and Salgado 2000, Delcourt 2018, Furtado et al. 2013, Gianechini et al. 2015, Hendrickx and Mateus 2014, Holtz 1998, Novas et al. 2004, Novas et al. 2013, Novas et al. 2019, Novas et al. 2006, Rauhut 2003, Sereno et al. 2004, Tortosa et al. 2014, Tykoski and Rowe 2004 and Yates 2005

Sister taxa: Abelisauroidea, Berberosaurus, Betasuchus, Ceratosauridae, Ceratosauroidea, Ceratosaurus, Dolichosuchus, Genyodectes, Megalosaurus meriani, Neoceratosauria, Orthogoniosaurus, Pterospondylus, Saltriovenator, Spinostropheus

Subtaxa: Austrocheirus Berthasaura Compsosuchus Deltadromeus Elaphrosaurinae Himalayadrinda Huinculsaurus Jubbulpuria Laevisuchus Ligabueino Noasaurinae Ornithomimoides barasimlensis

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Type: Noasaurus

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Algeria (1 collection), Argentina (7), Australia (2), Brazil (3), Egypt (4), India (3), Madagascar (29), Morocco (3)

• Jurassic of China (3), Pakistan (1), Tanzania (2), United States (1: Wyoming)

Total: 59 collections including 64 occurrences

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