Dinovember #18: R is for Rajasaurus

Name: Rajasaurus narmadensis
Meaning: princely reptile from the Narmada Valley [where it was found]
Time: Late Cretaceous, c. 69 million years ago
Place: India
Size: at least 7.6 m (25 ft) long, likely more - perhaps as much as 10.7 m (35 ft) long
Type of Dinosaur: abelisaurid abelisaur (short-faced, stump-armed carnivorous dinosaur)

At the end of the Cretaceous Period, the dominant predators on the northern continents were the tyrannosaurs. On the southern continents and India, which was isolated from Asia at the time, the bulldog-faced, hilariously-stubby-armed abelisaurs reigned. Rajasaurus was one of the largest abelisaurs known.