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| More Dinosaur Fact Sheets | EnchantedLearning.com Abelisaurus Fact Sheet |
Dinosaur/Paleontology Dictionary |
| NAME: | Meaning - Abelisaurus means "Abel's lizard," named to honor Roberto Abel, director of the Argentinian Museum of Natural Science Pronounced - ah-BEL-i-SAWR-us Named By - J. F. Bonaparte and F. E. Novas When Named - 1985 |
| DIET: | Carnivore (meat-eater) - it ate plant-eating dinosaurs. |
| SIZE: | Length - 21 to 26 feet (6.5 to 7.9 m) long Height - 6.6 ft (2 m) tall at the hips Weight - 1.4 tons |
| WHEN IT LIVED: | Late Cretaceous period, about 75-70 million years ago |
| WHERE IT LIVED: | Fossils have been found in Rio Negro Province, Argentina, South America. |
| FOSSILS: | Abelisaurus is known from a single skull that is 33 inches (85 cm) long. |
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| INTERESTING FACTS: |
Abelisaurus was a primitive theropod (meat-eating dinosaur) with a big head, a rounded snout, and relatively small teeth. |
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