#abelisaurids

[fishsfailureson]

Caletodraco

[fawnrats]

[Image description: Three stylized digital drawings of a light tan carnotaurus with white feet, a white tail tip, white hands & white on his face similar to what you might see on a cat. He has darker horizontal stripes running along his back & pink eyes. Each drawing depicts him at a different age, a baby on the left, adolescent in the middle & adult on the right. His baby self has little gray horns & is taking a step with his mouth open. His adolescent self has not yet fully grown grayish pink horns, a very subtle light pink spot on his visible arm & is standing and looking up with a sad expression. His adult self has light pink horns, a light pink spot on his visible arm & is running with a worried expression. The drawing of him as an adult is the only one to be shaded, & each drawing has a light pink outline. End of image description]

[unclefard]

A groggy pair of the currently undescribed/named giant Kenyan abelisaurids wake up on a hot afternoon to find a more shaded spot to nap. To be honest I think it's a bit odd how this thing was found several years ago and still has not been properly described, considering it is not only a giant theropod but the largest? of its respective group. You would think they would jump all over describing the next "bigger than t. rex". Then again, I do not know how the process works, and I assume properly describing a species involves a lot of collaboration/review with different paleontologists and other bureaucratic-esque things that take forever.

An odd thing about abelisaurids is how they are found in basically every cretaceous/south american fossil bed. if there's a new dinosaur from one of these beds it is either a weirdly small sauropod, a bird thing, or an abelisaurid.

i based the reconstruction off of Rajasaurus, albeit with added bulk, as its skull is relatively similar to the Titanovenator reconstruction. The little twin snout horns are speculative and meant to be more like the bigger scales on an iguana's face than proper horns. To be honest I hope they give this thing a cool African name or name it after some kind of monster or god as Titanovenator is just a little eh. With big meat-eating dinosaurs the names can get a little too edgy sometimes (cough cough Tyrannotitan). The perfect name in my opinion is Carcharodontosaurus, as it sounds formidable without any basis in pop culture or being obviously and overly edgy.

[fundinofactoftheday]

Dinofact #44

Known from several well-preserved skulls, Majungasaurus can be distinguished from other abelisaurids by its wide skull, its thick, roughly textured bone on its snout, and the single rounded horn on the top of its skull, which was originally mistaken for the dome of a pachycephalosaur. It also had more teeth than moth other abelisaurids.

Source: wikipedia

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[saddinosaurfacts]

CHENANISAURUS Named after Sidi Chennane mine Late Cretaceous, 68-66 million years ago

This Moroccan abelisaurid was about as tall as a modern-day camel, but up to 26 feet long! Officially described in 2017, it is one of the newest dinosaurs found, and possibly one of the last dinosaurs living. That's right, barring new finds, it’s very likely that Chenanisaurus was able to watch everything around it perish during the K-T extinction event!

In fact, Morocco was so much closer to Mexico at the end of the Cretaceous, Chenanisaurus might even have been able to see the flash from the asteroid! Lucky!

No chenanigans.

[eartharchives]

How pug-faced dinosaurs conquered Gondwana

Abelisaurids were a family of strange, short-faced carnivores that, after millions of years living in the shadows of larger predatory dinosaurs, suddenly spread across Gondwana, the southern hemisphere, in the late Cretaceous Period to become the dominant predators across four continents. A fossil discovered in north Africa gives additional insights into how these animals managed to disperse across so great a distance.

These dinosaurs — with arms tinier than T. rex — conquered four continents in the Late Cretaceous.

Image by Henry Sharpe

[fishsfailureson]

Koleken

I decided to use different brushes to shade this one.