Kurupi
Name: Kurupi
(named after a figure from Guarani mythology).
Phonetic: Ku-rup-e.
Named By: Fabiano Vidoi Iori, Hermínio Ismael de
Araújo-Júnior, Sandra A. Simionato Tavares, Thiago da Silva
Marinho & Agustín G. Martinelli - 2021.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Abelisauridae.
Species: K. itaata (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of fossil remains, but
original description authors estimate a body length of around 5
meters.
Known locations: Brazil -Marília Formation.
Time period: Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial remains
including a partial pelvis and three caudal (tail) vertebrae.
Kurupi
is a genus of abelisaurid
dinosaur that lived in South America during
the late Cretaceous. As an abelisaurid dinosaur we can infer what
the missing parts of this dinosaur may have looked at by comparing it
to better preserved genera. As such, Kurupi
would have had fairly
standard large theropod body proportions, but with reduced arms,
and skull that was high but short in proportion. Kurupi
would have
been a predator, probably hunting similar sized or smaller animals.
Further reading
- New theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Brazil improves
abelisaurid diversity. - Journal of South American Earth Sciences:
103551. - Fabiano Vidoi Iori, Hermínio Ismael de Araújo-Júnior,
Sandra A. Simionato Tavares, Thiago da Silva Marinho &
Agustín G. Martinelli - 2021.
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