Furileusauria
 | It has been suggested that this article be merged into Carnotaurinae. (Discuss) Proposed since April 2024. |
| Furileusaurians Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Restoration of a sprinting Carnotaurus sastrei
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Abelisauridae |
| Clade: | † Brachyrostra
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| Clade: | †Furileusauria Filippi et al., 2016 |
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Furileusauria ("stiff back lizards") is an extinct clade of derived
Majungasaurus crenatissimus.[1]
Classification
Distinguishing traits
Furileusauria is distinguished by several traits exclusive to the members of this clade. These are:[1]
- the presence of a tip in the middle area of the posterior surface of the ventral process of the postorbital
- the presence of a knob followed by a deep notch in the postorbital-squamosal contact
- the absence of fenestra between the frontal, postorbital and lacrimal
- an anterior projection of the distal end of the cervical epiphophyses
- the posterior margin of the dorsal vertebrae
- a crescent-shaped morphology of the distal tip of the transverse processes in anterior and middle caudal vertebrae
- the transverse processes of anterior caudal vertebraedistally expanded and only anteriorly projected
- a convex external margin of the transverse processes in anterior caudal vertebrae
- cnemial crest of the tibia with a downturned process
Phylogeny
In the description of the
abelisaurid Llukalkan, the authors performed a phylogenetic analysis to test the affinities of the new taxon. The simplified strict consensus tree of the analysis is shown below.[3]
| Abelisauridae |
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