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Giganotosaurus carolinii

Reptilia - Carcharodontosauridae

Taxonomy
Giganotosaurus carolinii was named by Coria and Salgado (1995). Its type specimen is MUCPv-CH 1, a partial skeleton (femur), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Villa El Chocón, 15 km south, which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial horizon in the Candeleros Formation of Argentina.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1995Giganotosaurus carolinii Coria and Salgado p. 225
1997Giganotosaurus carolinii Novas p. 1
1997Giganotosaurus carolini Novas p. 684
1999Giganotosaurus carolinii Calvo p. 26
1999Giganotosaurus carolinii Novas et al. p. 17R
2000Giganotosaurus carolinii Meyer p. 52
2002Giganotosaurus carolinii Lamanna et al. p. 64
2003Giganotosaurus carolinii Rauhut p. 36
2004Giganotosaurus carolinii Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 75
2005Giganotosaurus carolinii Candeiro and Martinelli p. 11
2007Giganotosaurus carolinii Brusatte and Sereno p. 904
2007Giganotosaurus carolinii González Riga and Astini p. 290
2007Giganotosaurus carolinii Sampson and Witmer p. 38
2008Giganotosaurus carolinii Sereno et al. p. 4
2011Giganotosaurus carolinii Apesteguía and Gallina p. 275
2012Giganotosaurus carolinii Canale et al. p. R25
2012Giganotosaurus carolinii Candeiro et al. p. 328
2012Giganotosaurus carolinii Candeiro and Harris p. 73
2012Giganotosaurus carolinii Carrano et al. p. 233
2012Giganotosaurus carolinii Cau et al. p. 662
2012Giganotosaurus carolinii Paulina Carabajal and Currie p. 86
2012Giganotosaurus carolinii Pazo and Apesteguía p. R55
2013Giganotosaurus carolinii Fernandes de Azevedo et al. p. 134
2014Giganotosaurus carolinii Dalman p. 161
2014Giganotosaurus carolinii Hendrickx and Mateus p. 19
2014Giganotosaurus carolinii Xing et al. p. 1653
2016Giganotosaurus carolinii Canale et al. p. 26
2016Giganotosaurus carolinii Chiarenza and Cau p. 8
2018Giganotosaurus carolinii Aureliano et al. p. 287
2019Giganotosaurus carolinii Suárez Riglos et al. p. 72
2021Giganotosaurus carolinii Bandeira et al. p. 15

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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()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
superfamilyAllosauroidea
familyCarcharodontosauridae
genusGiganotosaurus
speciescarolinii

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.

†Giganotosaurus carolinii Coria and Salgado 1995
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
R. A. Coria and L. Salgado 1995G. carolinii has the following characters: dorsoventrally wide main body of the maxilla, with subparallel dorsal and ventral edges; eave-like supraorbital lacrimal-postorbital contact (preliminarily considered convergent with Abelisaurus); two pneumatic foramina in the internal side of the quadrate; symphysial end of the dentary dorsoventrally expanded, bearing a ventral process; proximal end of the scapula forwardly projected above the coracoid; tubercle-like insertion for triceps in the ventral border of the scapula; lobule-shaped obturator process of the ischium; dorsally projected femoral head; and posterior intercondylar groove in the proximal end of the tibia.
M. T. Carrano et al. 2012Allosauroid with two pneumatic foramina on medial surface of quadrate (Coria & Salgado 1995).
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
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: 2004-12-14 12:50:08
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:50:08
Source: o = order
Reference: Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Cenomanian to the top of the Early/Lower Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9Argentina (Neuquén) Tetanurae indet. (type locality: 28460) Theropoda indet. (51944)
Late/Upper Cenomanian - Turonian100.5 - 89.8Argentina (Río Negro) Giganotosaurus carolinii (67296)