Subfamily
Valid Extinct

Noasaurinae

Paul 1988

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
33
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Noasaurinae
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Masiakasaurus on display at the Royal Ontario Museum. © Eduard Solà · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Ceratosauria Suborder
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Noasauridae Family
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Noasaurinae Subfamily
Fossil sites 33 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇲🇬 Madagascar
29
🇦🇷 Argentina
3
🇧🇷 Brazil
1
Geological formations
Maevarano
29
Bajo de la Carpa
2
Goio-Erê
1
Lecho
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
30
Santonian (85.7–83.6 Ma)
2
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
1
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
G. S. Paul. 1988. Predatory Dinosaurs of the World. Simon & Schuster, New York
Bibliography (9)
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