Carnotaurus mean's 'carnivorous bull'.it was discovered by Bonapare in 1985. there are 3 classification of Carnotaurus Saurischia, Theropoda and Abelisauridae. There remains from South America.
They have 7.5 metres length, 3 metres height and 1 tonne weight of dimensions. The food was carnivore.
Canotaurus was a large biped predator. The head was strong and imposing, with the teeth serrated like butcher's knives. The most distinctive features of this dinosaur were the two protuberances on its skull, like flat horns emerging above the ayes and its very short nose. Its arms were also unusual, very small in relation to the body, with a well-developed humerus but an extremely small radius and ulna.
There were four digits on the hand, one of which, unusually, turned inwards. Scientists have not yet established what purpose the very small arms serve, with the digits arranged in this unusual mannner.
The only remains of Carnotaurus were found in the prairies of Patagonia in Argentina in 1985. The palaeontologists were lucky enough also to find strips of fossilised skin, so they could form a more accurate idea of the external appearance of this creature. From the neck to the tail the skin had rows of small conical protuberances, while on the head were smaller little humps from which ran rows of large protuberant scale, covering the area round the eyes and the upper part of the nose.
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