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Aratasaurus
| Aratasaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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| Holotype femur and tibia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Coelurosauria |
| Genus: | †Aratasaurus Sayão et al., 2020 |
| Species: | †A. museunacionali
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| Binomial name | |
| †Aratasaurus museunacionali Sayão et al., 2020
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Aratasaurus is an extinct genus of basal coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Romualdo Formation of Brazil. The genus contains a single species, A. museunacionali, known from a partial right leg. Aratasaurus represents the only tetrapod fossil known from the lower levels of the Romualdo Formation.
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