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| More Dinosaur Fact Sheets | EnchantedLearning.com Carnotaurus Fact Sheet |
Dinosaur/Paleontology Dictionary |
| NAME: | Meaning - Carnotaurus means "flesh(-eating) bull" Pronounced - KAR-no-TAWR-us Named By - Jose Bonaparte When Named - 1985 |
| DIET: | Carnivore (meat-eater) |
| SIZE: | Length - 25 feet (7.5 m) long Height - 6.5 ft (2.2 m) tall at the hips Weight - 1 ton (1000 kg) |
| WHEN IT LIVED: | Middle Cretaceous period, about 113 to 91 million years ago |
| WHERE IT LIVED: | A single fossil was found in Patagonia, Chubut Province, Argentina, South America. |
| FOSSILS: | An almost complete fossilized skeleton, together with skin impressions (that reveal rows of bumps on rough skin), has been found. |
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| INTERESTING FACTS: |
Carnotaurus was a large, bipedal, meat-eating dinosaur that looked a bit like a bull. It had two, knobby eyebrow-horns (hence its name), a small skull, extremely tiny arms (even smaller than those of T. rex), and a long, thin tail. It may have had partial binocular vision (unlike most other dinosaurs) since the eyes were set facing slightly forwards. |
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