From the Dinosaurs Paintings collection
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Name: - Abelisaurus

Meaning: - Abelisaurus means "Abel's lizard," named to honor Roberto Abel, director of the Argentinian Museum of Natural Science

Pronounced: - ah-BEL-i-SAWR-us

Named By: - J. F. Bonaparte and F. E. Novas

When Named: - 1985

Diet: - Carnivore (meat-eater) - it ate plant-eating dinosaurs.

Size: - Length - 21 to 26 feet (6.5 to 7.9 m) long

Height: - 6.6 ft (2 m) tall at the hips

Weight: - 1.4 tons

When It Lived: - Late Cretaceous period, about 75-70 million years ago

Where It Lived: - Fossils have been found in Rio Negro Province, Argentina, South America.

Fossils: - Abelisaurus is known from a single skull that is 33 inches (85 cm) long.

Classification:

?Kingdom: - Animalia (animals)

?Phylum: - Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain)

?Class: - Archosauria (diapsids with socket-set teeth, etc.)

?Order Saurischia: - lizard-hipped dinosaurs

?Suborder Theropoda: - bipedal carnivores

?Family: - Neoceratosauria

?Genus: - Abelisaurus

Interesting Facts: - Abelisaurus was a primitive theropod (meat-eating dinosaur) with a big head, a rounded snout, and relatively small teeth.