Saurischian
dinosaursSaurischian
dinosaursThe ceratosaurids are a group of large meat-eating dinosaurs that includes Ceratosaurus, Carnotaurus and Abelisaurus. These dinosaurs were rather similar to the tyrannosaurids, but had shorter skulls and horns over their eyes. Ceratosaurids also had four-fingered rather than three-fingered hands.
Carnotaurus means 'meat-eating bull'.
This dinosaur lived in the Early Cretaceous period, and remains
from southern Argentina were described in 1985. This dinosaur
gets its name from its bull-shaped head, complete with a pair
of small horns. Carnotaurus was about 25-40ft long and
weighed a ton.
Ceratosaurus means 'horned reptile',
and this dinosaur gets its name from the bony horn between its
eyes. Ceratosaurus was a 15-20ft long meat-eating dinosaur
of the Late Jurassic period, and its remains have been excavated
in North America and East Africa. The first skeleton was found
in 1884 by Othniel Marsh, in the same quarry as Allosaurus.
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