Thanos simonattoi
| 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 |
| Binomial name | |
| †Thanos simonattoi Delcourt and Iori, 2020 | |
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.