Carnotaurinae

Carnotaurines
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 99.6–66 Ma
Mounted cast of a Carnotaurus sastrei skeleton, Chlupáč Museum, Prague
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Family: Abelisauridae
Subfamily: Carnotaurinae
Sereno, 1998
Type species
Carnotaurus sastrei
Bonaparte, 1985
Subgroups

See text.

Carnotaurinae is a subfamily of the theropod dinosaur family Abelisauridae. It includes the dinosaurs Aucasaurus (from Argentina), Carnotaurus (from Argentina), and Rajasaurus (from India). The group was first proposed by American paleontologist Paul Sereno in 1998, defined as a clade containing all abelisaurids more closely related to Carnotaurus than to Abelisaurus.[1]

Classification

Phylogeny

In 2008, Canale et al. published a phylogenetic analysis focusing on the South American carnotaurines. In their results, they found that all South American forms (including Ilokelesia) grouped together as a sub-clade of Carnotaurinae, which they named Brachyrostra, meaning "short snouts." They defined the clade Brachyrostra as "all the abelisaurids more closely related to Carnotaurus sastrei than to Majungasaurus crenatissimus."[2]

Carnotaurinae 

Majungasaurus


Brachyrostra 
Carnotaurini 

Carnotaurus



Aucasaurus





Ilokelesia


 

Skorpiovenator



Ekrixinatosaurus






An analysis conducted by Tortosa et al. in 2013 moved several Carnotaurine taxa into the newly named Majungasaurinae, and moved many abelisaurids into Carnotaurini.

Abelisauridae

Kryptops



Rugops



Genusaurus



MCF-PVPH-237 abelisaurid



Xenotarsosaurus



Tarascosaurus



La Boucharde abelisaurid


 
Majungasaurinae

Pourcieux abelisaurid



Arcovenator



Majungasaurus



Indosaurus



Rahiolisaurus



Rajasaurus



Brachyrostra

Ilokelesia


 

Ekrixinatosaurus


 

Skorpiovenator


 
Carnotaurini

Abelisaurus



Aucasaurus



Pycnonemosaurus



Quilmesaurus



Carnotaurus










See also

References

  1. Sereno, P.C. (1998). "A rationale for phylogenetic definitions, with application to the higher-level taxonomy of Dinosauria". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 210 (1): 41–83.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Canale, Juan I.; Scanferla, Carlos A.; Agnolin, Federico L.; Novas, Fernando E. (2008). "New carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of NW Patagonia and the evolution of abelisaurid theropods". Naturwissenschaften 96 (3): 409–14. doi:10.1007/s00114-008-0487-4. PMID 19057888.
  3. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S075339691300089X
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