| Ligabueino | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Genus: | †Ligabueino Bonaparte, 1996[1] |
| Species: | †L. andesi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ligabueino andesi Bonaparte, 1996[1] | |
Ligabueino (meaning "Ligabue's little one") is agenus ofabelisauroidtheropoddinosaur named after its discoverer,ItaliandoctorGiancarlo Ligabue. It is known only from an extremely fragmentary specimen, measuring 79 cm (2.6 ft) long, found in theLa Amarga Formation.[2] In spite of initial reports that it was an adult, the unfused vertebrae indicate that the specimen was a juvenile.[3] It was atheropod and lived during the EarlyCretaceousPeriod (Barremian to earlyAptian), in what is nowPatagonia.[4] Contrary to initial classifications that placed it as a member of theNoasauridae, Carrano and colleagues found in 2011 that it could only be placed with any confidence in the group Abelisauroidea.[3] In 2024,Ligabueino was recovered as a sister taxon ofBerthasauridae andAbelisauroidea.[5]
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