Furileusauria

Furileusaurians; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Campanian–Maastrichtian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Restoration of a sprinting Carnotaurus sastrei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Family:	†Abelisauridae
Clade:	†Brachyrostra
Clade:	†Furileusauria; Filippi, 2016
Genera
	†Carnotaurus; †Aucasaurus; †Pycnonemosaurus; †Quilmesaurus; †Viavenator; †Abelisaurus;

Furileusauria is an extinct clade of abelisaurid dinosaurs only known from South American fossil remains. In addition to the Abelisaurinae, it includes Carnotaurus, Pycnonemosaurus, Quilmesaurus and Viavenator.[1]

References

Leonardo S. Filippi; Ariel H. Méndez; Rubén D. Juárez Valieri & Alberto C. Garrido (2016). "A new brachyrostran with hypertrophied axial structures reveals an unexpected radiation of latest Cretaceous abelisaurids". Cretaceous Research. 61: 209–219. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.12.018.

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