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Thanos

Ate: MeatMeat-eating dinosLate Cretaceous

Thanos belongs to the group: Meat-eating dinos. Its fossils come from rocks about 86 to 72 million years old.1

Lived
86 to 72 million years ago1
Late Cretaceous
Most fossils found in
Brazil1
Food
Meat1

When did it live?

Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid
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Scientific name
Thanos
Named by
Delcourt and Iori 20201
Group
Meat-eating dinos
Family / clade
Abelisauridae1
Classification
Theropoda > Ceratosauria > Abelisauridae1
Age of the rocks
86 to 72 million years (Santonian / Campanian)1
Rock formations
São José do Rio Preto1
Countries
Brazil1
Fossil records
1 in the Paleobiology Database1

Where the facts come from

  1. Thanos in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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