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- Genus name
- ABELISAURUS
- Pronounced
- ah-bell-ih-SORE-us
- Meaning
- "Abel's lizard"
- Etymology
- Named in honour of Robert Abel, director of the Museo de Cipolletti, Cipolletti, Argentina, who found the specimen + sauros (Greek) = "lizard"
- Walking habit
- Biped
- Diet
- Carnivore: Predator of herbivorous dinosaurs - Sauropods
- Max length
- 650 cm
- Max height
- 260 cm
- Max weight
- 1360 kg
- Taxon
- Dinosauria | Saurischia | Eusaurischia | Theropoda | Neotheropoda | Ceratosauria | Abelisauroidea | Abelisauridae | Abelisaurus
- Habitat
- River floodplains
- First appears
- 84 million years ago
- Last appears
- 81 million years ago
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Fossils found
- South America (Argentina)
- Notes
- Large openings in Abelisaurus' skull meant it was lighter than most dinosaurs.
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