Aucasaurus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Ayrton Prost (talk | contribs) at 20:23, 25 May 2009 (→‎In popular culture: link edit.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Aucasaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Superorder:
Order:
Suborder:
Infraorder:
Family:
Subfamily:
Tribe:
Genus:
Aucasaurus
Binomial name
Aucasaurus garridoi
Coria, Chiappe, Dingus, 2002

Aucasaurus was a genus of medium-sized theropod dinosaur from Argentina that lived during the Santonian stage. It was smaller than the related Carnotaurus, although the arms were longer. The type skeleton is complete to the thirteenth caudal vertebra, and so is relatively well understood, and is the most complete abelisaurid yet described. However, the skull is damaged, causing some paleontologists to speculate that it was involved in a fight shortly prior to death.

In popular culture

This dinosaur was featured in the Discovery Channel series Dinosaur Planet, where it was depicted as a pack hunter and ate the sauropod Saltasaurus.

External links