#abelisaurids

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.

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.

A recent twitter controversy brings us a new image of the Flesh-Eating Bull involving the soft tissue of the head. From a single specimen of this really neat short-faced tiny armed, two horned beast continues to reveal new and exciting things about the animal's anatomy 30/40 years after its discovery. __________________________________________________________________ Check out our merchandise stores, or else…we’ll feed you to a Tyrannosaurus… 

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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!

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

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