Furileusaurians Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Restoration of a sprinting Carnotaurus sastrei | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Abelisauridae |
Clade: | †Brachyrostra |
Clade: | †Furileusauria Filippi et al., 2016 |
Genera | |
Furileusauria ("stiff back lizards") is an extinct clade of derived abelisaurid dinosaurs only known from South American fossil remains.[1] They represent some of the largest members of the Abelisauridae, with an average length of 7.1 ± 2.1 m (23.3 ± 6.9 ft).[2] The clade is defined as the most inclusive clade containing Carnotaurus sastrei but not Ilokelesia aguadagrandensis, Skorpiovenator bustingorryi, or Majungasaurus crenatissimus.[1]
Furileusauria is distinguished by several traits exclusive to the members of this clade. These are:[1]
In the description of the abelisaurid Llukalkan, the authors performed a phylogenetic analysis to test the affinities of the new taxon. The simplified strict consensus tree of the analysis is shown below.[3]
Abelisauridae |
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