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In the Cretaceous of South America Sociedade & Natureza ISSN: 0103-1570 [email protected] Universidade Federal de Uberlândia Brasil dos Anjos Candeiro, Carlos Roberto; Martinelli, Agustín Guillermo ABELISAUROIDEA AND CARCHARDONTOSAURIDAE (THEROPODA, DINOSAURIA) IN THE CRETACEOUS OF SOUTH AMERICA. PALEOGEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOCRONOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS Sociedade & Natureza, vol. 17, núm. 33, diciembre, 2005, pp. 5-19 Universidade Federal de Uberlândia Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=321327187001 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Abelisauroidea and carchardontosauridae (theropoda, dinosauria) in the cretaceous of south america. Paleogeographical and geocronological implications Carlos Roberto dos Anjos Candeiro, Agustín Guillermo Martinelli ABELISAUROIDEA AND CARCHARDONTOSAURIDAE (THEROPODA, DINOSAURIA) IN THE CRETACEOUS OF SOUTH AMERICA. PALEOGEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOCRONOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS Abelisauroidea e Carcharodontosauridae (Theropoda, Dinosauria) na América do Sul durante do Cretáceo. Implicações paleogeograficas e geocronologicas Carlos Roberto dos Anjos Candeiro Depart. Geologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro [email protected], [email protected] Agustín Guillermo Martinelli Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina [email protected] Artigo recebido em 18/10/2004 e aceito para publicação em 31/08/2005 ABSTRACT: In this contribution an up-to-date list of abelisauroid ceratosaurians and carcharodontosaurid allosaurians recognized in South America is presented. Abelisauroids and carcharodontosaurids in South America show rich species diversity and a wide range of temporal and geographical distribution. At least eight formally described species of Abelisauroidea are recognized in Argen- tina and only one in Brazil; in contrast, only one species of Carcharodontosauridae is known for all South America. The fossil record of abelisauroids and carcharodontosaurids in South America shows a dominance of abelisauroids in the upper late Cretaceous, while the dominance of carcharodontosaurids as large predators was during the Cenomanian-Turonian. Although knowl- edge of the evolution of Abelisauroidea and Carcharodontasauridae in South America, as well as in the rest of Gondwana is still far for being complete, intensive explorations in recent years have provided greater insight into the composition of theropod faunas in the Cretaceous of Gondwana. Keywords: Abelisauroidea; Carcharodontosauridae; Cretaceous; South America. RESUMO: Na presente contribuição é apresentada uma lista atualizada dos ceratossaurios abelissauroideos e dos alossaurios carcarodontosaurídeos sul-americanos. Os abelissauródeios e carcaro- dontossaurídeos possuem uma grande diversidade específica e com uma grande distribuição tem- poral e geográfica. São reconhecidas oito espécies de Abelisauroidea na Argentina e somente uma no Brasil, em contraste, só é conhecida uma espécie de Carcharodontosauridae na América do Sul. O registro fóssil denota uma importância dos abelissauroideos no Cretáceo mais tardio, contudo o predomínio dos carcarodontossaurídeos como os grandes predadores somente ocorreram durante o Cenomaniano-Turoniano. Apesar da escassez do conhecimento da evolução dos Abelisauroidea e Carcharodontasauridae na América do Sul como o resto do Gondwana, a intensiva exploração nos últimos anos tem produzido um grande incremento de dados e brindado Sociedade & Natureza, Uberlândia, 17 (33): 5-19, dez. 2005 5 Abelisauroidea and carchardontosauridae (theropoda, dinosauria) in the cretaceous of south america. Paleogeographical and geocronological implications Carlos Roberto dos Anjos Candeiro, Agustín Guillermo Martinelli com novas luzes para a melhor compreensão da composição faunística desses terópodes do Cretáceo do Gondwana. Palavras-chave: Abelisauroidea; Carcharodontosauridae; Cretáceo; América do Sul. 1 INTRODUCTION groups were unearthed with increasing frequency in recent decades. The abelisauroid ceratosaurians and carcha- rodontosaurid allosaurians are the best-known large 2 OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY predatory theropod dinosaurs of the Cretaceous of Gondwana. Abelisauroids have been recognized in In this contribution, we present an up-to- several localities of Argentina (BONAPARTE, date list of Abelisauroidea and Carcharodonto- 1991A, 1996; BONAPARTE; NOVAS, 1985; BO- sauridae taxa recognized in the Cretaceous of South NAPARTE; POWELL, 1980; BONAPARTE; NO- America. Furthermore, we evaluate the paleogeo- VAS; CORIA, 1990; CORIA; CHIAPPE; DIN- graphical and chronostratigraphical distribution of GUS, 2002; LAMANNA; MARTINEZ; SMITH, both groups in South America during the Cretaceous 2002; MARTINEZ ET AL. 1986; RAUHUT ET as the result of Gondwanan plate tectonics. AL. 2003), Brazil (BERTINI, 1996; BITTEN- COURT; KELLNER, 2002; CANDEIRO ET. The data on abelisauroid and carcharo- 2004A,B; KELLNER; CAMPOS, 2002;), India dontosaurid species for the present review are (CHATTERJEE, 1978; HUENE; MATLEY, 1933; mostly based in literature sources as well as in the WILSON ET AL. 2003; NOVAS; AGNOLIN; direct observation of the specimens. The term Abe- BANDYOPADYAY, 2004), and Madagascar (LA- lisauroidea is used sensu Bonaparte (1991b), No- VOCAT, 1955; CARRANO; SAMPSON; FORS- vas (1992), Carrano, Sampson, Forster (2002), and TER, 2002; SAMPSON; CARRANO; FORSTER, Wilson et al. (2003), as the clade of ceratosaurians 2001; SAMPSON ET AL. 1998;). Beside Gondwa- that includes Abelisauridae plus Noasauridae. The nan regions, abelisauroids are also documented in term Carcharodontosauridae follows the definition France (BUFFETAUT ET AL. 1988) and Spain of Coria and Currie (2003) as a family of Allo- (ASTIBIA ET AL. 1990). sauroidea that comprises all descendants of the most recent common ancestor of Giganotosaurus and The record of carcharodontosaurids is less Carcharodontosaurus. abundant and mainly restricted to Argentina (CO- RIA; SALGADO, 2000; VICKERS-RICH ET AL. For the stratigraphic units in the Neuquén 1999) and Continental Africa (Morocco; SERENO Basin we follow the arrangement proposed by ET AL. 1996; STROMER, 1915); nevertheless, a Leanza (1999), and Leanza and Hugo (2001). For few isolated tooth remains were also collected in other stratigraphic units we follow: Southern Basins, the upper Cretaceous beds of Brazil (CANDEIRO Page et al. (1999); Salta Basin, Salfity and Marquilla ET AL., 2002, 2004A,B). (1999); San Luis Basin, Medeiros and Schultz (2002), and Bauru Basin, Fernandes and Coimbra (1996). The fossil record of abelisauroids and car- charodontosaurids in South America shows rich spe- cies diversity and a wide range of temporal and geo- graphical distribution. Thus, remains attributed to both Sociedade & Natureza, Uberlândia, 17 (33): 5-19, dez. 2005 6 Abelisauroidea and carchardontosauridae (theropoda, dinosauria) in the cretaceous of south america. Paleogeographical and geocronological implications Carlos Roberto dos Anjos Candeiro, Agustín Guillermo Martinelli 3 PALEOGEOGRAPHY AND UPPER Finally, it is worth mentioning that during the CRETACEOUS TECTONIC EVENTS: late Cretaceous South American areas shared the A BRIEF REVIEW same paleogeographical history; however during the Maastrichtian the southern-most part of South During most of the Mesozoic the continen- America was affected by the Maastrichtian-Danian tal masses were principally arranged in two sepa- marine transgression, which separated the Argen- rated continents: Laurasia in the north and Gondwana tinean and Brazilian basins (Salta and Neuquén Ba- in the south (BONAPARTE, 1986; FORSTER, sins in Argentina and Bauru Basin in Brazil) 1999; HAY ET AL, 1999; PITMAN ET AL, 1993). (PASCUAL; ORTIZ JAUREGUIZAR; PRADO, By the end of the Mesozoic these masses started to 1996; ZAMBRANO, 1987). This disconnection separate into their modern conformation. could have caused same faunal differentiation be- tween the northern and southern parts of South The separation of Gondwana started in the America. late Jurassic as a product of rifting along the present South America and Africa borders. This separation 4 ABELISAUROIDEA AND continued, by the Cretaceous times the South At- CARCHARODONTOSAURIDAE lantic Ocean started to form, and Gondwana split BACKGROUND into the Eastern and Western landmasses (PITMAN ET AL., 1993). Eastern Gondwana comprised of Abelisauroidea is a ceratosaurian clade that Africa, India-Madagascar; whereas Western includes small to large-sized predators that evolved Gondwana included South America, Antarctica, and during the Cretaceous in Gondwanan landmasses. Oceania. By the late Cretaceous India separated The group is composed of two families, Abelisauridae from Madagascar and started the northwest move- and Noasauridae, which are widely distributed in both ments that lead to a collision with Eurasia. Western temporal and geographical rank. Abelisauridae was Gondwanan landmasses were still connected by the created by Bonaparte and Novas (1985) to accom- beginning of the Tertiary (HAY ET AL., 1999; modate Abelisaurus comahuensis. After this first PASCUAL; ORTIZ JAUREGUIZAR;PRADO, discovery, knowledge of the group was increased 1996; SAMPSON ET AL. 1998). considerably by new discoveries, and by the rein- terpretation
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