Vitosaura

Vitosaura
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Speculative life restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: Abelisauridae
Genus: Vitosaura
Jiménez Velandia et al., 2025
Species:
V. colozacani
Binomial name
Vitosaura colozacani
Jiménez Velandia et al., 2025

Vitosaura is an extinct genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaurs known from the Late Cretaceous Los Llanos Formation of Argentina. The genus contains a single species, Vitosaura colozacani, known from a partial skeleton. Alongside Guemesia and the noasaurid Noasaurus, Vitosaura is one of the only Argentinian ceratosaurians found outside of Patagonia.