The dinosaur represents only the second known of the abelisaurid family of dinosaurs to have lived in the La Colonia Formation at the end of the dinosaur era in the Late Cretaceous Epoch.

This small, hornless predator represents the first definitive abelisaurid discovered in northwestern Argentina. The fossil, a nearly complete braincase, was unearthed from the Los Blanquitos ...

The abelisaurid neck vertebra from the Bahariya Oasis, Egypt that constitutes the first record of this dinosaur group from that classic fossil locality. The bone is shown in anterior view.

According to the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the new specimen was classified as “abelisaurid” due to its short skull with rough bones. It is estimated that its head had protrusions and ...