Abelisauroidea

Machine-translated from the Spanish article

The abelisauroids (Abelisauroidea) are a superfamily of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaurs, which lived from the Early Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous (approximately 184 to 66 million years ago, from the Toarcian to the Maastrichtian), in what is now South America, Asia, Africa, France and Australia. This group had a geographic distribution almost exclusively restricted to the southern hemisphere of the planet, with the possible exception of Tarascosaurus. As a result of evolutionary convergence and phylogenetic relationships, the southern and northern forms adopted similar morphological characteristics.