Abelisaurus (Abelisaurus comahuensis), meaning "Abel's lizard", was a type of dinosaur. It was discovered by Othenio Abel, the director of the Argentinian Museum of Natural Science, and named by J.F. Bonaparte and F.E. Novas in 1985.
Abelisaurus Dinosaur has been establish
in Rio Negro in Argentina, and is supposed to have lived
around 75 to 70 million years ago, during
the late Cretaceous period. It is known from a single incomplete, 33-inch (85 cm) long skull. It had strangely
heavy teeth, and thus was possibly in part a scavenger.
Abelisaurus Dinosaur may have been connected
to carnotaurus
dinosaurs, which also lived in Argentina over
70 million years ago, and perhaps to indosuchus.
Name: | Abelisaurus "Abel's lizard" |
Size: | 25 to 30 feet in length |
Main Facts: | Standing roughly 6.6 feet (2 metres) tall at the hips and weighing 1.4 tons. |