- Neovenatoridae
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Neovenatorids
Temporal range:
Early Cretaceous-Late Cretaceous, 128–70 MaFile:Neovenator mount (1).jpg Restoration of Neovenator Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Saurischia Suborder: Theropoda Branch: †Carcharodontosauria Family: †Neovenatoridae
Benson, Carrano & Brusatte, 2010Type species Neovenator salerii
Hutt, Martill, & Barker, 1996Subgroups Neovenatoridae is a family of large carnivorous dinosaurs. The group is a branch of the allosauroids, a large group of carnosaurs that also includes the sinraptorids, carcharodontosaurids, and allosaurids. Neovenatorids are the latest-surviving allosauroids; at least one neovenatorid, Orkoraptor, lived near the end of the Mesozoic era, dating to the early Maastrichtian stage of the latest Cretaceous period, about 70 million years ago.[1] Compared to other allosauroids, neovenatorids had short, wide shoulder blades, and their ilia (upper hip bones) had many cavities.[1]
Classification
The cladogram presented here follows the 2010 analysis by Benson, Carrano and Brusatte.[1] Another study published later in 2010 also found the Australian theropod Rapator to be a megaraptoran extremely similar to Australovenator.[2]
Neovenatoridae unnamed Megaraptora unnamed unnamed References
- ^ a b c Benson, R.B.J.; Carrano, M.T; Brusatte, S.L. (2010). "A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic". Naturwissenschaften 97 (1): 71–78. Bibcode 2010NW.....97...71B. doi:10.1007/s00114-009-0614-x. PMID 19826771.
- ^ Agnolin, Ezcurra; Pais; Salisbury (2010). "A reappraisal of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: Evidence for their Gondwanan affinities". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8 (2): 257–300.
Categories:- Carnosaurs
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