What was Carnotaurus?
Q: What was Carnotaurus?
A: Carnotaurus was a predatory dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago.
Q: Where did Carnotaurus live?
A: Carnotaurus lived in South America during the Upper Cretaceous between about 72 and 70 million years ago.
Q: How many well-preserved skeletons of Carnotaurus have been found?
A: Only one well-preserved skeleton of Carnotaurus has been found.
Q: When was the Carnotaurus skeleton that was found in Argentina uncovered?
A: The Carnotaurus skeleton was found and uncovered in 1984 in the Chubut Province of Argentina.
Q: What group did Carnotaurus belong to?
A: Carnotaurus belonged to the Abelisauridae, a group of large theropods.
Q: Where did abelisaurids live?
A: Abelisaurids lived only in the ancient southern supercontinent Gondwana.
Q: What role did abelisaurids play in the ecosystem during the later Cretaceous of Gondwana?
A: Abelisaurids were the dominant predators of the later Cretaceous of Gondwana, occupying the ecological niche filled by the tyrannosaurids in the northern continents.
