Noasauridae
Appearance
Noasaurids | |
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Artist's restoration of Noasaurus leali | |
Scientific 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]
- Austrocheirus
- Compsosuchus
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Timeline
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References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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