ANGATURAMA
a spinosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil.
Pronunciation: AHN-gah-too-RAH-ma
Meaning: The Noble One
Author/s: Kellner and Campos (
1996)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Ceará, Brazil
Discovery Chart Position: #416
Angaturama limai
(Lima's Noble One)Etymology
Angaturama is named for a protective spirit of the same name in the Brazilian Tupi Indian beliefs. In their language, the name literally means "the noble one", with a particular emphasis on bravery.
The
species epithet,
limai, honours the late Brazilian palaeontologist Murilo R. de Lima, who informed Kellner of the specimen in 1991.
Discovery
The remains of
Angaturama were found in the Romualdo Formation (initially called the Romualdo member) of the Santana
group (initially called the Santana Formation) at Chapada do Araripe, Santana do Cariri town,
Ceará State, Brazil, by Lima in 1991.
The
holotype (USP GP/2T-5) is the tip of a snout.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Albian
Age range: 110 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Piscivore
References
• Kellner AWK and Campos DA (1996) "First Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur from Brazil with comments on Spinosauridae".
Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 199(2): 151–166. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/199/1996/151.
• Charig AJ and Milner AC (1997) "
Baryonyx walkeri, a fish-eating dinosaur from the Wealden of Surrey".
Bulletin of the Natural History Museum of London, 53: 11-70.
• Sereno PC, Beck AL, Dutheuil DB, Gado B, Larsson HC, Lyon GH, Marcot JD, Rauhut OWM, Sadleir RW, Sidor CA, Varricchio D, Wilson GP and Wilson JA (1998) "A long-snouted predatory dinosaur from Africa and the evolution of spinosaurids".
Science, 282(5392): 1298-1302. DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5392.1298.
• Buffetaut E and Ouaja M (2002) "
A new specimen of Spinosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Tunisia, with remarks on the evolutionary history of the Spinosauridae".
Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 173(5): 415–421. DOI: 10.2113/173.5.415.
• Buffetaut E, Martill D and Escuillié F (2004) "Pterosaurs as part of a spinosaur diet".
Nature, 430(6995): 33.
DOI: 10.1038/430033a.
• Dal Sasso C, Maganuco S, Buffetaut E and Mendez MA (2005) "New information on the skull of the enigmatic theropod Spinosaurus, with remarks on its size and affinities".
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25(4): 888–896. DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0888:niotso]2.0.co;2.
• Bertin T (2010) "A catalogue of material and review of the Spinosauridae".
PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, 7(4): 1-39
• Benyoucef M, Läng E, Cavin L, Mebarki K, Adaci M and Bensalah M (2015) "Overabundance of piscivorous dinosaurs (Theropoda: Spinosauridae) in the mid-Cretaceous of North Africa: The Algerian dilemma".
Cretaceous Research, 55: 44–55. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2015.02.002.
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