Describer

Sereno, Wilson, Conrad, 2004

Time

Cretaceous Early Hauterivian Barremian

Classification

Saurischia Theropoda Abelisauridae

Diet

Carnivore

Fossilsite

Tiouraren Formation, Sahara Desert, In Abaka, Niger

Info

Genus - Typespecies

Spinostropheus gautieri (Sereno, Wilson, Conrad, 2004) > Elaphrosaurus gautieri (Lapparent, 1960) (partim)

Based in part on the material (MNHN) originally described as Elaphrosaurus gautieri (Lapparent,1960), and another vertebrae (MNN TIG6)

Holotype

(MNHN 1961-28) cervical vertebra (80 mm), two anterior dorsal vertebrae (70, 80 mm), posterior dorsal vertebra (50 mm), four dorsal fragments, three sacral fragments, three caudal vertebrae (80-85 mm), two caudal fragments, partial humerus (200 mm), distal pubis, distal femur, incomplete tibia, incomplete fibula, proximal metatarsal, four metatarsal fragments, partial pedal phalanx (Lapparent, 1960)

Referred

?(MNHN coll.) ulna (300 mm) (Lapparent, 1960) ?(MNHN coll.) proximal metatarsal (Lapparent, 1960) ?(MNHN coll.) cervical neural arch, two dorsal vertebrae, two sacral vertebrae (140 mm), partial caudal vertebra, three manual unguals (40, 45, 60 mm), tibiae (700 mm), distal fibula, proximal metatarsal, four pedal phalangeal fragments (Lapparent, 1960) (MNN TIG6) posterior third cervical vertebra, fourth cervical vertebra, fifth cervical vertebra, sixth cervical vertebra, seventh cervical vertebra, eighth cervical vertebra, ninth cervical vertebra, tenth cervical vertebra, cervical rib, first dorsal vertebra, second dorsal vertebra, third dorsal vertebra, fourth dorsal vertebra, fifth dorsal vertebra, sixth dorsal vertebra, seventh dorsal vertebra, eighth dorsal vertebra, partial ninth dorsal vertebra, partial tenth dorsal vertebra, partial eleventh dorsal vertebra, partial twelfth dorsal vertebra, partial thirteenth dorsal vertebra, fragmentary dorsal ribs, first sacral neural arch, second sacral neural arch, third sacral neural arch, ossified tendons (Sereno et al., 2004).