Carnotaurinae
| Carnotaurines Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
|---|---|
| Mounted cast of a Carnotaurus sastrei skeleton, Chlupáč Museum, Prague | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Abelisauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Carnotaurinae Sereno, 1998 |
| Type species | |
| †Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte, 1985 | |
| Subgroups | |
Carnotaurinae is a subfamily of the theropod dinosaur family Abelisauridae. It includes the dinosaurs Aucasaurus (from Argentina), Carnotaurus (from Argentina). The group was first proposed by American paleontologist Paul Sereno in 1998, defined as a clade containing all abelisaurids more closely related to Carnotaurus than to Majungasaurus.
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