Noasaurus
Field photograph to come
Noasaurus
DV-0266
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- about 1 m (3 ft)
- Group
- Theropods, Noasauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Bonaparte and Powell 1980
Field notes
About Noasaurus
Noasaurus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Noasauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Noasaurus, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Lecho Formation. It was named by Bonaparte and Powell in 1980.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
To scale
How big was Noasaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Noasauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. F. Bonaparte and J. E. Powell. 1980. A continental assemblage of tetrapods from the Upper Cretaceous beds of El Brete, northwestern Argentina (Sauropoda-Coelurosauria-Carnosauria-Aves). Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 139:19-28