Eoabelisaurus
| Eoabelisaurus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic
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| Eoabelisaurus holotype fossil, Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Abelisauridae |
| Genus: | †Eoabelisaurus Pol & Rauhut, 2012 |
| Species: | †E. mefi
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| Binomial name | |
| Eoabelisaurus mefi Pol & Rauhut, 2012
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Eoabelisaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic period of what is now South America. It was a bipedal carnivore that probably reached 6.5 metres (21 ft) in length.[1]
The discovery, which is fairly recent, is important because of its relative completeness. It is the earliest known member of the family Abelisauridae.