Abelisaurus
Abelisaurus
PrehistoricPhoto: Kokoo · CC BY-SA 2.5
DinosaurExtinctcarnivore
Abelisaurus was a meat-eating dinosaur that roamed South America during the Late Cretaceous. With only a partial skull found so far, scientists estimate it walked on two legs and stretched about as long as a school bus.
- Belonged to the abelisaurid family of theropod dinosaurs.
- Lived roughly 83 to 74 million years ago.
- Known from a single incomplete skull fossil.
GrasslandSavannaSouth America
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- Classification
- Dinosaur
- Scientific name
- Abelisaurus
- Habitat
- Grassland, Savanna
- Regions in this directory
- South America
- Diet
- carnivore
- Relative size
- large