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Noasaurids
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous - Late Cretaceous,
120–70 Ma
Artist's restoration of Noasaurus leali
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: †Abelisauria
Family: †Noasauridae
Bonaparte & Powell, 1980
Genera

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Synonyms

Velocisauridae Bonaparte, 1991

Noasaurids were a group of theropod dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period (Aptian/Albian-Maastrichtian ages[1]). They were generally small in size. They were closely related to and built similarly to the Abelisauridae. The best known noasaurid is Masiakasaurus knopfleri from Madagascar.[2]

Noasauridae is defined as all theropods closer to Noasaurus than to Carnotaurus.

Genera

Included genera after Carrano, Loewen and Sertic, 2011.[1]

Other genera

Classification

The following cladogram is based on the phylogenetic analysis conducted by Carrano et al. in 2002, showing the relationships among the Noasauridae:[4]

Abelisauroidea 

Timeline

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References

  1. ^ a b Carrano, M.T., Loewen, M.A. and Sertic, J.J.W. (2011). "New Materials of Masiakasaurus knopfleri Sampson, Carrano, and Forster, 2001, and Implications for the Morphology of the Noasauridae (Theropoda: Ceratosauria). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 95: 53pp.
  2. ^ Andrew H. Lee & Patrick M. O’Connor (2013) Bone histology confirms determinate growth and small body size in the noasaurid theropod Masiakasaurus knopfleri. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(4): 865-876
  3. ^ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S075339691300089X
  4. ^ Carrano, M.T.; Sampson, S.D.; and Forster, C.A. (2002). "The osteology of Masiakasaurus knopfleri, a small abelisauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22 (3): 510–534.


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