Carnottaurus
Carnotaurus
PrehistoricDinosaurExtinctcarnivore
Carnotaurus was a meat-eating dinosaur that roamed South America around 69 to 66 million years ago. With its short snout and distinctive horns above its eyes, it belonged to a family of predators called abelisaurs. Scientists know a lot about it thanks to a single, nearly complete skeleton found in Argentina.
- It had two small horns above its eyes, unlike most other meat-eating dinosaurs.
- The only known skeleton was discovered in Argentina's Chubut Province in 1984.
- It belonged to a group of short-snouted dinosaurs found only in South America.
GrasslandSouth America
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- Classification
- Dinosaur
- Scientific name
- Carnotaurus
- Habitat
- Grassland
- Regions in this directory
- South America
- Diet
- carnivore
- Relative size
- large