Noasauridae

Filozoa

Noasaurids Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous, 120–70 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Artist's restoration of Noasaurus leali
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Theropoda
Superfamily:	†Abelisauroidea
Family:	†Noasauridae Bonaparte & Powell, 1980
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Velocisauridae Bonaparte, 1991

Noasaurids were a group of theropod dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period (Aptian/Albian-Maastrichtian ages^[1]). They were generally small in size. They were closely related to and built similarly to the Abelisauridae.

Noasauridae is defined as all theropods closer to Noasaurus than to Carnotaurus.

Genera

Included genera after Carrano, Loewen and Sertic, 2011.^[1]

• Compsosuchus
• Genusaurus
• Jubbulpuria
• Laevisuchus
• Masiakasaurus
• Noasaurus (type)
• Ornithomimoides
• Velocisaurus

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Carrano, M.T., Loewen, M.A. and Sertic, J.J.W. (2011). "New Materials of Masiakasaurus knopfleri Sampson, Carrano, and Forster, 2001, and Implications for the Morphology of the Noasauridae (Theropoda: Ceratosauria). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 95: 53pp.

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