| Thanos Temporal range: Santonian,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Abelisauridae |
| Clade: | †Brachyrostra |
| Genus: | †Thanos Delcourt and Iori, 2020 |
| Species: | †T. simonattoi
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| †Thanos simonattoi Delcourt and Iori, 2020
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Thanos (named for the Marvel Comics character) is a genus of carnivorous brachyrostran abelisaurid dinosaur that lived in Brazil during the Santonian stage of the late Cretaceous Period. It contains only a single species known as T. simonattoi.[1]
- ^ Delcourt, Rafael; Vidoi Iori, Fabiano (2020). "A new Abelisauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from São José do Rio Preto Formation, Upper Cretaceous of Brazil and comments on the Bauru Group fauna". Historical Biology. 32 (7): 917–924. Bibcode:2020HBio...32..917D. doi:10.1080/08912963.2018.1546700.