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Ligabueino

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Kingdom
  
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Chordata

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Reptilia

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†L. andesi

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Noasaurus, Genusaurus, Laevisuchus, Genyodectes, Xenotarsosaurus

Ligabueino (meaning "Ligabue's little one") is a genus of noasaurid dinosaur named after its discoverer, Italian doctor Giancarlo Ligabue. It is known only from an extremely fragmentary specimen, measuring 79 cm (2.6 ft) long. In spite of initial reports that it was an adult, the unfused vertebrae indicate that the specimen was a juvenile. It was a theropod and lived during the Early Cretaceous Period, in what is now Patagonia. Its remains are too fragmentary to classify. In 2011, Carrano and colleagues found that it could only be placed with any confidence in the group Abelisauroidea.

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Ligabueino Wikipedia


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