Abelisaurus - Facts and Figures

Abelisaurus - Facts and Figures Name: Abelisaurus (Greek for Abels reptile); articulated AY-chime ih-SORE-us Living space: Forests of South America Recorded Period: Late Cretaceous (85-80 million years back) Size and Weight: Around 30 feet in length and 2 tons Diet: Meat Recognizing Characteristics: Enormous head with little teeth; openings in skull above jaws About Abelisaurus Abels reptile (so named on the grounds that it was found by the Argentinian scientist Roberto Abel) is known by just a solitary skull. Albeit whole dinosaurs have been remade from less, this absence of fossil proof has constrained scientistss to risk a few suppositions about this South American dinosaur. As befitting its theropod ancestry, its accepted that Abelisaurus looked like a downsized Tyrannosaurus Rex, with genuinely short arms and a bipedal step, and just weighing around two tons, worst case scenario. The one odd component of Abelisaurus (at any rate, the one that we are aware of without a doubt) is the combination of enormous openings in its skull, called fenestrae, over the jaw. Its presumable that these developed to help the heaviness of this dinosaurs huge head, which in any case may have lopsided its whole body. Coincidentally, Abelisaurus has loaned its name to a whole group of theropod dinosaurs, the abelisaurswhich incorporates such remarkable meat-eaters as the squat equipped Carnotaurus and Majungatholus. Supposedly, abelisaurs were confined toward the southern island landmass of Gondwana during the Cretaceous time frame, which today relates to Africa, South America and Madagascar.