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Giganotosaurus carolinii
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
Year | Name and author |
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1995 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Coria and Salgado p. 225 fig. 1 |
1997 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Novas p. 1 |
1997 | Giganotosaurus carolini Novas p. 684 |
1999 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Calvo p. 26 |
1999 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Novas et al. p. 17R |
2000 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Meyer p. 52 |
2002 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Lamanna et al. p. 64 |
2003 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Rauhut p. 36 |
2004 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 75 |
2005 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Candeiro and Martinelli p. 11 |
2007 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Brusatte and Sereno p. 904 |
2007 | Giganotosaurus carolinii González Riga and Astini p. 290 |
2007 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Sampson and Witmer p. 38 |
2008 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Sereno et al. p. 4 |
2011 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Apesteguía and Gallina p. 275 |
2012 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Canale et al. p. R25 |
2012 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Candeiro et al. p. 328 |
2012 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Candeiro and Harris p. 73 |
2012 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Carrano et al. p. 233 |
2012 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Cau et al. p. 662 |
2012 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Paulina Carabajal and Currie p. 86 |
2012 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Pazo and Apesteguía p. R55 |
2013 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Fernandes de Azevedo et al. p. 134 |
2014 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Dalman p. 161 |
2014 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Hendrickx and Mateus p. 19 |
2014 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Xing et al. p. 1653 |
2016 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Canale et al. p. 26 |
2016 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Chiarenza and Cau p. 8 |
2018 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Aureliano et al. p. 287 |
2019 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Suárez Riglos et al. p. 72 |
2021 | Giganotosaurus carolinii Bandeira et al. p. 15 |
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†Giganotosaurus carolinii Coria and Salgado 1995
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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R. A. Coria and L. Salgado 1995 | G. 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. 2012 | Allosauroid with two pneumatic foramina on medial surface of quadrate (Coria & Salgado 1995). |