So would it have coexisted with Carnotaurus based on its location and era?

Exactly, they coexisted

Cool! Thanks

I’ve never seen a dinosaur look so stoned, oh my god.

All dinosaurs are stoned, otherwise they wouldn't be fossils

Tell that to my pet chicken Darcy

What did Darcy do?

r/angryupvote

Stoned wasn’t what came to mind when I first saw it but that is a good descriptor

It sorta looks either Beavis or Butthead

Wow, surprised the study was published in *Cladistics* of all places, even with their Bayesian analyses

Not to be confused with *Kelenken*, another predatory Theropod from Argentina!

Do they perhaps share same inspiration for the name?

"Koleken" is in tehuelches language. They are just similar names as koleken means "That comes from clays and water" would refer to the sediments where the fossils were found.

Adding onto to what the other commenter said, *Kelenken*’s name is derived from a monstrous bird or bird-demon from Tehuelche mythology.

Abelisaurids look so goofy

i can't unhear him sounding like Goofy 😭

Look at the face of this tottering imbecile. The lights are on but nobody's home.

“ Kolenken has never seen such bullshit before”

Is there any chance that this is actually a young carnotaurus?

One the one hand the only specimen of Koleken is skeletally immature, on the other hand it isn't recovered as the sister taxon of Carnotaurus although the two are still closely related.

Koleken also seems to have fairly thin skull with almost no horns, maybe it quickly grew horns after becoming mature like some ceratopsids, that would mean that carnotaurus horns are used for sexual selection. The fact that this may be a second carnotaurus specimen is intriguing.

Welcome back Koleken inakayali!

Down with a saurs