Angaturama
Field photograph to come
Angaturama
DV-0387
- Lived
- 120 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Spinosauridae
- Found in
- Brazil
- Named by
- Kellner and Campos 1996
Field notes
About Angaturama
Angaturama was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 120 to 113 million years ago. It belongs to the family Spinosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Angaturama, from Brazil. Its fossils come from the Romualdo Formation. It was named by Kellner and Campos in 1996.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
115 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Spinosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. W. A. Kellner and D. d. A. Campos. 1996. First Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur from Brazil with comments on Spinosauridae. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 199(2):151-166