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- Carnotaurus abstract "Carnotaurus /ˌkɑːrnoʊˈtɔːrəs/ is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period, between about 72 and 69.9 million years ago. The only species is Carnotaurus sastrei. Known from a single well-preserved skeleton, it is one of the best-understood theropods from the Southern Hemisphere. The skeleton, found in 1984, was uncovered in the Chubut Province of Argentina from rocks of the La Colonia Formation. Derived from the Latin carno [carnis] (\"flesh\") and taurus (\"bull\"), the name Carnotaurus means \"meat-eating bull\", alluding to its bull-like horns. Carnotaurus is a derived member of the Abelisauridae, a group of large theropods that occupied the large predatorial niche in the southern Landmasses of Gondwana during the late Cretaceous. The phylogenetic relations of Carnotaurus are uncertain; it may have been closer to either Majungasaurus or Aucasaurus.Carnotaurus was a lightly built, bipedal predator, measuring 8 to 9 m (26 to 30 ft) in length and weighing at least 1.35 metric tons (1.33 long tons; 1.49 short tons). As a theropod, Carnotaurus was highly specialized and distinctive. It had thick horns above the eyes, a feature unseen in all other carnivorous dinosaurs, and a very deep skull sitting on a muscular neck. Carnotaurus was further characterized by small, vestigial forelimbs and long and slender hindlimbs. The skeleton is preserved with extensive skin impressions, showing a mosaic of small, non-overlapping scales measuring approximately 5 mm in diameter. The mosaic was interrupted by large bumps that lined the sides of the animal, and there are no hints of feathers.The distinctive horns and the muscular neck may have been used in fighting conspecifics. According to separate studies, rivaling individuals may have combated each other with quick head blows, by slow pushes with the upper sides of their skulls, or by ramming each other head-on, using their horns as shock absorbers. The feeding habits of Carnotaurus remain unclear: some studies suggest the animal was able to hunt down very large prey such as sauropods, while other studies find it preyed mainly on relatively small animals. Carnotaurus was well adapted for running and was possibly one of the fastest large theropods.".
- Carnotaurus thumbnail Carnotaurus,_Chlupáč_Museum,_Prague-2.jpg?width=300.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageExternalLink carnotaurus.png.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageExternalLink 16carnosaurio.htm.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageID "1251051".
- Carnotaurus wikiPageLength "48060".
- Carnotaurus wikiPageOutDegree "168".
- Carnotaurus wikiPageRevisionID "706935066".
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Abelisauridae.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Abelisaurus.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Adaptation.
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- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Albian.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Allosaurus.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Amargasaurus.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink American_alligator.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Argentodites.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Aucasaurus.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Basal_(phylogenetics).
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Bending_moment.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Bernardino_Rivadavia.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Bernardino_Rivadavia_Natural_Sciences_Museum.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Binocular_vision.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Biological_specificity.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Bipedalism.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Boidae.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Bovidae.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Carcharodontosauridae.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Carnotaurinae.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Carpal_bones.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Brachyrostrans.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cretaceous_dinosaurs.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Dinosaurs_of_South_America.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fossil_taxa_described_in_1985.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Caudofemoralis.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Cenomanian.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Ceratosaurus.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Cerro_Barcino_Formation.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Chelidae.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Chlupáč_Museum.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Chubut_Province.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Clade.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Coastal_plain.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Concretion.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Cranial_kinesis.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Cryptodira.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Death_pose.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Dinosaur.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Docodonta.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Ecological_niche.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Ekrixinatosaurus.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Emu.
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- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Epaxial_and_hypaxial_muscles.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Epipophyses.
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- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Femur.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Flexural_strength.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Fourth_trochanter.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Frontal_bone.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Genus.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Gondwana.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Hadrosaurid.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Hematite.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Holotype.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Hyoid_bone.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Iguana.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Ilokelesia.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Integumentary_system.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink José_Bonaparte.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Keratin.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Kiwi.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Komodo_dragon.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink La_Colonia_Formation.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Late_Cretaceous.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Latin.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Longissimus.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Lungfish.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Maastrichtian.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Majungasaurus.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Mandible.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Maxilla.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Meiolaniidae.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Metacarpal_bones.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Moment_of_inertia.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Mudflat.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Multituberculata.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Nasal_bone.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink National_Geographic_Society.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Natural_History_Museum_of_Los_Angeles_County.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Neurocranium.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Occiput.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Orbit_(anatomy).
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Philip_J._Currie.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Plesiosauria.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Pleurodira.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Polycotylidae.
- Carnotaurus wikiPageWikiLink Prague.