Carnotaurus

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(pronounced KAR-no-TAWR-us) Carnotaurus (meaning "flesh-eating bull") was an unusual-looking meat-eating dinosaur !t li"ed from the mid to late Cretaceous period# about $$% to &$ million 'ears ago Anatomy( Carnotaurus was about )* feet (+ * m) long and weighed about $ ton ($,,, kg) This theropod had ) brow-horns (hence its name)# e-tremel' tin' arms (e"en smaller than those of T'rannosaurids)# and a long# thin tail !t ma' ha"e had partial binocular "ision (unlike most other dinosaurs) since its e'es were set facing slightl' forwards Fossils( Carnotaurus. almost complete fossili/ed skeleton# together with skin impressions (that re"eal rows of bumps on rough skin)# ha"e been found in 0atagonia# 1outh America !t was named b' paleontologist 2 3onaparte in $&4* The t'pe species is C. sastrei