Noasauridae
| Noasaurids Temporal range: Early Cretaceous - Late Cretaceous, 125–69Ma | |
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| Artist's restoration of Noasaurus leali | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Abelisauria |
| Family: | †Noasauridae Bonaparte & Powell, 1980 |
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Velocisauridae Bonaparte, 1991 | |
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. The best known noasaurid is Masiakasaurus knopfleri from Madagascar.[2]
Noasauridae is defined as all theropods closer to Noasaurus than to Carnotaurus.
Genera
Included genera after Carrano, Loewen and Sertic, 2011.[1] and Tortosa et al., 2013.[3]
- ?Austrocheirus
- Compsosuchus
- ?Dahalokely
- ?Deltadromeus
- Genusaurus
- ?Jubbulpuria
- Laevisuchus
- ?Ligabueino
- Masiakasaurus
- Noasaurus (type)
- ?Ornithomimoides
- Velocisaurus
Other genera
Classification
The following cladogram is based on the phylogenetic analysis conducted by Carrano et al. in 2002, showing the relationships among the Noasauridae:[4]
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An analysis conducted by Tortosa et al., 2013 recovers Dahalokely as a basal noasaurid.[3]
Timeline of descriptions
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Carrano, M.T., Loewen, M.A. and Sertic, J.J.W. (2011) "New Materials of Masiakasaurus knopfleri Sampson, Carrano, and Forster, 2001, and Implications for the Morphology of the Noasauridae (Theropoda: Ceratosauria). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 95: 53pp.
- ↑ Andrew H. Lee & Patrick M. O’Connor (2013) Bone histology confirms determinate growth and small body size in the noasaurid theropod Masiakasaurus knopfleri. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(4): 865-876
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tortosa, Thierry; Eric Buffetaut; Nicolas Vialle; Yves Dutour; Eric Turini; Gilles Cheylan (2013). "A new abelisaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of southern France: Palaeobiogeographical implications". Annales de Paléontologie (In press). doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2013.10.003. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
- ↑ Carrano, M.T.; Sampson, S.D.; and Forster, C.A. (2002). "The osteology of Masiakasaurus knopfleri, a small abelisauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22 (3): 510–534.