| Noasaurids Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous, 120–70 Ma |
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| Artist's restoration of Noasaurus leali | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Superfamily: | †Abelisauroidea |
| Family: | †Noasauridae Bonaparte & Powell, 1980 |
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Noasaurids were a group of theropod dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period (Aptian/Albian-Maastrichtian ages[1]). They were generally small in size. They were closely related to and built similarly to the Abelisauridae.
Noasauridae is defined as all theropods closer to Noasaurus than to Carnotaurus.
Included genera after Carrano, Loewen and Sertic, 2011.[1]