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🦴 Known fossil material
Xenotarsosaurus is known from only part of its skeleton. This diagram shows which parts of the body have been found.
Parts found as fossils
- Back vertebrae
- Hind leg
Known from two back vertebrae and a right hind leg: thigh bone, shin bones and ankle bones.
Coloured areas are parts of the skeleton with fossil bones found so far (sometimes just one bone in that area); faint areas have not been found. The outline is a general shape for its group, not this dinosaur's real body.
Compiled from published descriptions; not yet checked against the original papers by a specialist. Sources: Wikipedia (en): Xenotarsosaurus
Xenotarsosaurus
There is no write-up for this dinosaur yet, but the scientific data below is complete.
Who lived alongside it
Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Xenotarsosaurus (Bajo Barreal), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.
Epachthosaurus
Aniksosaurus
Drusilasaura
Katepensaurus
Notohypsilophodon
Sarmientosaurus
Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.
Scientific details
- Classification
- Theropod (two-legged predators)
- Family
- Abelisauridae
- When it lived
- 89.8–100.5 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Cenomanian – Turonian
- Named by
- Martínez et al., 1986
- Fossil occurrences
- 1 sites
Countries with fossils
- Argentina
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata