New Abelisaurid from Brazil

[Troodon]

The attached paper describes a new Abelisaurid from the lower Cretaceous of Brazil: Spectrovenator ragei .

Its a good paper to keep as a reference source when trying to identify material from other geographic areas like Morocco 

 

http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/fr/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/19/6

 

[Haravex]

Great paper thats for once isn't paywalled, its very interesting to see how numerous abelisaurids became in the cretaceous.

[Praefectus]

I like the species name on this one: ragei - of rage. 

[piranha]

1 hour ago, Praefectus said:

I like the species name on this one: ragei - of rage. 

 

Named for a paleontologist---not a 'raging' dinosaur

 

Etymology. — The specific epithet ‘ragei’ is a patronym honouring Dr Jean-Claude Rage for his influential contribution to our knowledge on the Paleobiogeography of continental Mesozoic vertebrates.

[DD1991]

6 hours ago, Haravex said:

Great paper thats for once isn't paywalled, its very interesting to see how numerous abelisaurids became in the cretaceous.

Eoabelisaurus is currently the oldest known abelisaurid, and Spectrovenator constitutes the first described abelisaurid from the Berriasian-early Aptian interval, considering that Ligabueino is the only other abelisauroid described from this interval, and we now know that Elaphrosaurus and Limusaurus are the oldest noasaurids.

[dinosaur man]

Awesome!  I love Brazilan Dinosaurs!