Dahalokely tokana-A Meat eating Madagascan Dinosaur.

Recent Fossil finds from Madagascar have been identified as a new species Dahalokely tokana meaning 'Lonely small bandit'. The relatively small Theropod about the size of a large cow lived 90 Million years ago in a time when India and Madagascar formed a landmass of their own. Madagascar, famed for it's fossil treasure trove has yielded a new species for a decade making this find very important not only for Madagascar but for our understanding of the evolution and distribution of Dinosaurs in the late Cretaceous. Dahalokely is a member of the Abelisauridae a family of dinosaurs that include such species as Majungatholus, Tarascosaurus, and Carnotaurus. Abelisaurs were common in the southern hemisphere at this time and were ferocious predators. Joe Sertich says 'It just reinforces the importance of searching previously unsearched areas for new Dinosaurs waiting to be discovered'.