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Dinosaur Speed Demon: The Caudal Musculature of Carnotaurus sastrei and Implications for the Evolution of South American Abelisaurids PLoS ONE, 6 (10) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025763 ...
The hand structure of Carnotaurus sastrei (Theropoda, Abelisauridae): implications for hand diversity and evolution in abelisaurids Palaeontology DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01091.x ...
Dinosaur Speed Demon: The Caudal Musculature of Carnotaurus sastrei and Implications for the Evolution of South American Abelisaurids. PLoS ONE, 2011; 6 (10): e25763 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025763 ...
Reference: Méndez, A. (2012). The cervical vertebrae of the Late Cretaceous abelisaurid dinosaur Carnotaurus sastrei Acta Palaeontologica Polonica DOI: 10.4202/app.2011.0129 ...
The paper, published in PLoS One, dubs Carnotaurus sastrei a "dinosaur speed demon" and details findings from computer modelling which suggest that long rib-like bones, along the length of the ...
According to the researchers, the scaly skin of this carnivorous dinosaur Carnotaurus sastrei is the most completely preserved of any theropod — a group of hollow-boned, two-legged dinosaurs ...
A study on the newly discovered species has been published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Carnotaurus sastrei, a relative Guemesia ochoai may have looked similar to. Credit: Fred Wierum.
The Carnotaurus is known thanks to a well-preserved skeleton unearthed in Argentina's Chubut Province in 1984. While they were both lightly built, bipedal predators, the 16.4-foot-long Koleken ...
(Image credit: Santiago Reuil) K. inakayali lived alongside another abelisaurid, Carnotaurus sastrei, which was discovered in the same geological formation in 1985 and is notable for its horns.
SARA H. BURCH, MATTHEW T. CARRANO, AN ARTICULATED PECTORAL GIRDLE AND FORELIMB OF THE ABELISAURID THEROPOD MAJUNGASAURUS CRENATISSIMUS FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF MADAGASCAR, Journal of Vertebrate ...