Pycnonemosaurus

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Pycnonemosaurus Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Saurischia Suborder: Theropoda Family: Abelisauridae Genus: Pycnonemosaurus Kellner & Campos, 2002
Species
P. nevesi Kellner $ Campos, 2002 (type)

Pycnonemosaurus is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur that belonged to the family Abelisauridae. It was found in the Upper Cretaceous Bauru-type red conglomerate sandstone, in the Mato Grosso, in Brazil and lived about 70 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian stage).

Thus far, fossil finds are fragmentary: five incomplete teeth, parts of seven caudal vertebrae, the distal part of a right pubis, a right tibia, and the distal articulation of the right fibula. The small pubic foot and hatchet-shaped cnemial crest of the tibia distinguish this species within the Abelisaurs. The type species, Pycnonemosaurus nevesi, was formally described by Kellner and Campos in 2002.

[edit] External links

• Pycnonemosaurus at Dinosaurier Web (in German)