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Carnotaurus sastrei

Reptilia - Abelisauridae

Taxonomy
Carnotaurus sastrei was named by Bonaparte (1985). Its type specimen is MACN-CH 894, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Estancia Pocho Sastre, 8th Paleontological Expedition, which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial siliciclastic in the La Colonia Formation of Argentina.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1985Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte p. 149
1986Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte p. 74
1988Carnotaurus sastrei Paul pp. 284-285
1990Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte et al. pp. 2-3
1991Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte p. 4
1991Carnotaurus sastrei Le Loeuff and Buffetaut p. 592
1991Carnotaurus sastrei Molnar p. 165
1992Carnotaurus sastrei Molnar p. 265
1995Carnotaurus sastrei Frey and Martill p. 408
1996Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte p. 89
1996Carnotaurus sastrei Chatterjee and Rudra p. 517
1996Carnotaurus sastrei Sampson et al. p. 604
1997Carnotaurus sastrei Norell and Makovicky p. 20
1997Carnotaurus sastrei Novas p. 1
1997Carnotaurus sastrei Rowe et al. p. 107
1997Carnotaurus sastrei Vickaryous and Ryan p. 488
1999Carnotaurus sastrei Knoll et al. p. 106
1999Carnotaurus sastrei Naish p. 369
1999Carnotaurus sastrei Prasad and Sahni p. 382
2002Carnotaurus sastrei Lamanna et al. p. 58
2003Carnotaurus sastrei Rauhut p. 33
2004Carnotaurus sastrei Coria and Arcucci p. 597
2004Carnotaurus sastrei Juárez Valieri and Fiorelli p. 36
2004Carnotaurus sastrei Martínez et al. p. 577
2004Carnotaurus sastrei Novas et al. p. 68
2004Carnotaurus sastrei Tykoski and Rowe p. 49
2005Carnotaurus sastrei Buffetaut et al. p. 5
2005Carnotaurus sastrei Candeiro and Martinelli p. 9
2006Carnotaurus sastrei Candeiro et al. p. 935
2006Carnotaurus sastrei Coria et al. p. 1288
2007Carnotaurus sastrei Juárez Valieri et al. p. 60
2007Carnotaurus sastrei Malkani
2007Carnotaurus sastrei Sampson and Witmer p. 33
2008Carnotaurus sastrei Carrano and Sampson p. 191
2008Carnotaurus sastrei Sereno et al. p. 4
2009Carnotaurus sastrei Salgado et al. p. 78
2010Carnotaurus sastrei Christiansen and Tschopp p. 168
2010Carnotaurus sastrei Ezcurra et al. p. 14
2010Carnotaurus sastrei Smith et al. p. 930
2011Carnotaurus sastrei Juárez Valieri et al. p. 167
2011Carnotaurus sasteri Osi and Buffetaut p. 41
2011Carnotaurus sastrei Paulina Carabajal p. 793
2011Carnotaurus sastrei Ruiz et al. p. 1271
2011Carnotaurus sastrei Vila et al. p. 156 fig. 7.24
2012Carnotaurus sastrei Burch and Carrano p. 1
2012Carnotaurus sastrei Candeiro et al. p. 326
2012Carnotaurus sastrei Candeiro and Harris p. 76
2012Carnotaurus sastrei Fanti et al. p. 16
2012Carnotaurus sastrei Paulina Carabajal and Currie p. 88
2013Carnotaurus sastrei Fernandes de Azevedo et al. p. 139
2013Carnotaurus sastrei Furtado et al. p. 109
2013Carnotaurus sastrei Novas et al. p. 176
2014Carnotaurus sastrei Dalman p. 174
2014Carnotaurus sastrei Delcourt and Grillo p. 312
2014Carnotaurus sastrei Malkani p. 169
2014Carnotaurus sastrei Méndez p. 99
2015Carnotaurus sastrei Malkani p. 238
2015Carnotaurus sastrei White et al. p. 3
2016Carnotaurus sastrei Filippi et al. p. 210
2016Carnotaurus sastrei Ratsinbaholison et al. p. 281
2018Carnotaurus sastrei Delcourt p. 2
2018Carnotaurus sastrei Delcourt and Grillo p. 516
2019Carnotaurus sastrei Senter and Sullivan p. 2
2020Carnotaurus sastrei Zaher et al. p. 112
2022Carnotaurus sastrei Méndez et al. p. 1
2022Carnotaurus sastrei Salem et al. p. 3
2023Carnotaurus sastrei Khosla and Lucas p. 721

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
suborderCeratosauria()
familyAbelisauridae
—Brachyrostra
—Furileusauria
genusCarnotaurus
speciessastrei

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.

†Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte 1985
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. T. Carrano and S. D. Sampson 2008Abelisaurid with (1) proportionally shorter skull with a deeper snout than other abelisaurids, (2) an accessory pneumatic opening in the maxillary ascending ramus (excavatio pneumatica?; Witmer 1997; Sampson & Witmer 2007), (3) large frontal horns, (4) extremely short and stout radius and ulna, the former bearing a large ulnar process and both provided with large, convex distal ends (modified from Bonaparte et al. 1990).
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
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: Marsh 1875, Peczkis 1995

Age range: Maastrichtian or 72.20000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Argentina (Chubut) Carnotaurus sastrei (type locality: 25534)