Ligabueino
| Ligabueino Temporal range:Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Genus: | †Ligabueino Bonaparte,1996[1] |
| Species: | †L. andesi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Ligabueino andesi Bonaparte, 1996[1]
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Ligabueino(meaning "Ligabue's little one" ) is agenusofnoasauriddinosaurnamed after its discoverer,ItaliandoctorGiancarlo Ligabue.It is known only from an extremely fragmentary specimen, measuring 79 cm (2.6 ft) long, found in theLa Amarga Formation.[2]In spite of initial reports that it was an adult, the unfused vertebrae indicate that the specimen was a juvenile.[3]It was atheropodand lived during the EarlyCretaceousPeriod(Barremianto earlyAptian), in what is nowPatagonia.[4]Contrary to initial classifications that placed it as a member of theNoasauridae,Carrano and colleagues found in 2011 that it could only be placed with any confidence in the group Abelisauroidea.[3]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^abBonaparte, J. (1996). "Cretaceous tetrapods of Argentina". Münchner Geowissenschaften Abhandlungen 30: 73-130.
- ^Grillo, O. N.; Delcourt, R. (2016). "Allometry and body length of abelisauroid theropods:Pycnonemosaurus nevesiis the new king ".Cretaceous Research.69:71–89.doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.09.001.
- ^abCarrano, 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.
- ^Novas, F.E.; Agnolin, F.L.; Ezcurra, M.D.; Porfiri, J.; Canale, J.I. (2013-10-01)."Evolution of the carnivorous dinosaurs during the Cretaceous: The evidence from Patagonia".Cretaceous Research.45:174–215.Bibcode:2013CrRes..45..174N.doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2013.04.001.hdl:11336/102037.ISSN0195-6671.
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