Ligabueino

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Ligabueino
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Superfamily: Abelisauroidea
Family: Noasauridae
Genus: Ligabueino
Bonaparte, 1996
Species

Ligabueino (meaning "Ligabue's little one") is a genus of abelisaurid dinosaur named after Italian doctor Giancario Ligabue. This was the smallest of all abelisaurs, and one of the smallest dinosaurs, at only 70 cm (2.3 ft) long. It was a theropod and lived during the Early Cretaceous Period, in what is now Patagonia.

Fragments found were: a femur, ilium, pubis, phalanx and neural arches of cervical, dorsal and caudal vertebrae

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