Outline: a typical theropod
Caletodraco
"dragon of the Caux"
Type species Caletodraco cottardi
- Lived
- 101 to 94 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Abelisauridae
- Found in
- France
- Named by
- Buffetaut et al. 2024
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
95 million years ago
Field notes
About Caletodraco
What it was like
Caletodraco was an abelisaur, a two-legged hunter with a short head and tiny arms, known from part of the backbone, hips and a thigh bone. It was a close relative of Carnotaurus and Aucasaurus from South America.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now northern France. Its bones were found in chalk, rock that formed at the bottom of a sea, so its body must have washed out from land.
How it was found
Buffetaut and colleagues named Caletodraco in 2024. The bones were found at the foot of seaside cliffs. It was the first member of its branch of abelisaurs named from outside South America.
Close relatives
Other members of Abelisauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: E. Buffetaut, H. Tong, and J. Girard, B. Hoyez, J. Párraga. 2024. Caletodraco cottardi: A New Furileusaurian Abelisaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Cenomanian Chalk of Normandy (North-Western France). Fossil Studies 2(3):177-195