Thanos Temporal range: Santonian,
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Artist's impression of Thanos simonattoi | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Abelisauridae |
Clade: | †Brachyrostra |
Genus: | †Thanos Delcourt and Iori, 2020 |
Species: | †T. simonattoi
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Binomial name | |
†Thanos simonattoi Delcourt and Iori, 2020
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Thanos (named for the Marvel Comics character) is a genus of carnivorous brachyrostran abelisaurid dinosaur that lived in Brazil during the Santonian stage of the late Cretaceous Period. It contains only a single species known as T. simonattoi.[1]