Ligabueino

Taxobox
name = "Ligabueino"
fossil_range = Early Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
superfamilia = Abelisauroidea
familia = Noasauridae
genus = "Ligabueino"
genus_authority = Bonaparte, 1996
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "L. andesi" Bonaparte, 1996 (type species)

"Ligabueino" (meaning "Ligabue's little one") is a genus of abelisaurid dinosaur named after Italian doctor Giancario Ligabue. This was the smallest of all abelisaurs, and one of the smallest dinosaurs, at only 70 cm (2.3 ft) long. It was a theropod and lived during the Early Cretaceous Period, in what is now Patagonia.

Fragments found were: a femur, ilium, pubis, phalanx and neural arches of cervical, dorsal and caudal vertebrae

References

* [http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a650c6.htm "Ligabueino" in The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia] at Dino Russ's Lair