Afrovenator abakensis

Lu numi significa, 'n latinu, cacciaturi africanu.

Era nu dinusàuru carnivuru. Havi vissutu ntê Giurassicu^[1], ( ntrâBatonianu e Oxfordianu) circa 160 miliuni d'anni fa^[2].

S'attruvatu 'n Niger, 'n Àfrica.

Classificazzioni scintifìca

Sereno, P.C., Wilson, J.A., Larsson, H.C.E., Dutheil, D.B., & Sues, H-D., (1994). Early Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Sahara. Science 266: 267-270.
Rauhut and Lopez-Arbarello (2009). Considerations on the age of the Tiouaren Formation (Iullemmeden Basin, Niger, Africa): Implications for Gondwanan Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate faunas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 271: 259-267.
Allain, R. 2002. Discovery of megalosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) in the middle Bathonian of Normandy (France) and its implications for the phylogeny of basal Tetanurae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3): 548-563.
Carrano, M.T., Sampson, S.D. & Forster, C.F. (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.
Holtz, T.R., Molnar, R.E., Currie, P.J. (2004). Basal Tetanurae. In: Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P., & Osmolska, H. (Eds.). The Dinosauria (2nd Edition). Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 71–110.
Rauhut, O.W.M. (2003). The Interrelationships and Evolution of Basal Theropod Dinosaurs. Special Papers in Palaeontology 69. London: The Palaeontological Association. Pp. 1–215.

↑ Sereno, P.C., Wilson, J.A., Larsson, H.C.E., Dutheil, D.B., & Sues, H-D., 1994. Early Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Sahara. Science 266: 267-270
↑ Rauhut and Lopez-Arbarello (2009). Considerations on the age of the Tiouaren Formation (Iullemmeden Basin, Niger, Africa): Implications for Gondwanan Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate faunas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 271: 259-267