Angaturama

Taxobox|
name = "Angaturama"


image_size = 200px
fossil_range = Albian
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Theropoda
familia = Spinosauridae
subfamilia = Spinosaurinae
genus = "Angaturama"
binomial = "Angaturama limai"
binomial_authority = Kellner & Campos, 1996

"Angaturama" (pronEng|ˌɑːŋɡətuːˈrɑːmə AHN-gah-too-RAH-ma - (Tupi Indian) "angaturama" meaning "noble, brave") is a genus of spinosaurid theropod from the Early Cretaceous Santana Formation of northeastern Brazil. The type specimen was discovered in a limestone nodule and consists of the incomplete anterior portion of a skull. A description of the new species by Alexander W.A. Kellner & Diogenes de A. Campos was published in February 1996. It was named after Angaturama, a protective spirit in the aboriginal Tupi Indian culture of Brazil, and paleontologist Murilo R. de Lima, who informed Kellner of the specimen in 1991. "Angaturama" was diagnosed by the very strong lateral compression of the snout, and a thin sagittal crest (shape unknown) on top of the premaxillae. Fish may have formed a large part of its diet.

"Angaturama" was originally described as "the first remain of a dinosaur skull described from Brazil." However, as the paper describing "Angaturama" was in press, another Brazilian spinosaurid skull was published as "Irritator". Many paleontologists suspect "Angaturama" and "Irritator" are the same dinosaur, in which case the name "Irritator" has priority.

References

*Kellner, A.W.A. & D.A. Campos, 1996. First Early Cretaceous dinosaur from Brazil with comments on Spinosauridae. "N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh." 199 (2): 151-166.

External links

* [http://www.dinoruss.org/de_4/5c70808.htm Dinoruss.org]