Pycnonemosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Pycnonemosaurus"
fossil_range=Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Theropoda
familia = Abelisauridae
genus = "Pycnonemosaurus"
genus_authority = Kellner & Campos, 2002
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"P. nevesi" Kellner $ Campos, 2002 (type)

"Pycnonemosaurus" is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur that belonged to the family Abelisauridae. It was found in the Upper Cretaceous Bauru-type red conglomerate sandstone, in the Mato Grosso, in Brazil and lived about 70 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian stage).

Thus far, fossil finds are fragmentary: five incomplete teeth, parts of seven caudal vertebrae, the distal part of a right pubis, a right tibia, and the distal articulation of the right fibula. The small pubic foot and hatchet-shaped cnemial crest of the tibia distinguish this species within the Abelisaurs. The type species, "Pycnonemosaurus nevesi", was formally described by Kellner and Campos in 2002.

External links

* [http://www.dinosaurier-web.de/galery/pages_p/pycnonemosaurus.html "Pycnonemosaurus" at Dinosaurier Web (in German)]