Abelisaurus - Facts and Figures

Abelisaurus - Facts and Figures Name: Abelisaurus (Greek for Abels reptile); articulated AY-ringer ih-SORE-us Natural surroundings: Forests of South America Chronicled Period: Late Cretaceous (85-80 million years prior) 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 in light of the fact 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 peril a few conjectures 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, at the most. The one odd element of Abelisaurus (at any rate, the one that we are aware of without a doubt) is the grouping of enormous openings in its skull, called fenestrae, over the jaw. Its presumable that these developed to help the heaviness of this dinosaurs monstrous head, which in any case may have uneven its whole body. Coincidentally, Abelisaurus has loaned its name to a whole group of theropod dinosaurs, the abelisaurswhich incorporates such eminent meat-eaters as the thickset equipped Carnotaurus and Majungatholus. Supposedly, abelisaurs were limited toward the southern island landmass of Gondwana during the Cretaceous time frame, which today compares to Africa, South America and Madagascar.