Spinostropheus

(Genus)

Spinostropheus is a genus of small ceratosaurian dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous period of Niger. Originally thought to be a species of the closely related Elaphrosaurus, subsequent studies (Sereno et al. 2002) have found that it is more closely related to the abelisaurs.

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The Genus Spinostropheus is further organized into finer groupings including:

Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in the Genus Spinostropheus: S. gautieri

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Lapparent (1960). "Les dinosauriens du 'Continental intercalaire' du Sahara central." Mem. Soc. Geol. France. 88A:1-57.
Sereno, Conrad and Wilson (2002). "Abelisaurid theropods from Africa: Phylogenetic and biogeographic implications." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 22(3):106A.

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