Gnathovorax cabreirai: a new early dinosaur and the origin and initial radiation of predatory dinosaurs
Predatory dinosaurs were an important ecological component of terrestrial Mesozoic ecosystems.Though theropod dinosaurs carried this role during the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods (and probably the post-Carnian portion of the Triassic), it is difficult to depict the Carnian scenario, due to the scarcity of fossils.Until now, knowledge on the earli