Abelisauroidea (Theropoda, Dinosauria) from Africa: a review of the fossil record
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Souza-Júnior, André Luis de
Author
Candeiro, Carlos Roberto dos Anjos
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Vidal, Luciano da Silva
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Brusatte, Stephen Louis
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Mortimer, Mickey
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Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
2023
2023-07-05
63
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https://www.revistas.usp.br/paz/article/view/177016
journal article
10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.019
1807-0205
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Chenanisaurusbarbaricus
Longrich,Pereda-Suberbiola, Jalil, Khaldoune & Jourani, 2017
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The
holotype
of this species is from the region of
Sidi Chennane
. Although the
specimen
was not collected by the authors who described it, the pale white color of the bone and the color of the associated matrix are consistent with the preservation of other materials found in the Sidi Chennane locality.
The specimens are described as coming from Couche III of the Ouled Abdoun Basin (Maastrichtian).
Chenanisaurus
was described based on the specimen
OCP
DEK-GE 772, an anterior fragment of the left dentary. In addition, there are two other
specimens
:
OCP
DEK-GE 457 and
OCP
DEK-GE 458, which are two well-preserved teeth.The well-preserved maxillary tooth WDC-CCPM-005 described by
Buffetaut
et al.
(2005)
likely comes from Couche III of the Ouled Abdoun Basin (Maastrichtian).This tooth was identified as belonging to an abelisaurid. Later,
Longrich
et al.
(2017)
indicated that this tooth belongs specifically to
C. barbaricus
.