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The abundant record of theropods from Bajo de La Carpa Formation (Neuquén Group, Santonian), known from the end of the nineteenth century, come from numerous locations within the Neuquén Basin. During the excavation of the titanosaur Bonitasaura salgadoi at the La Bonita fossiliferous site, northwest of Río Negro province Argentina, were recovered three isolated teeth assignable to non-avian theropod dinosaurs. Previous studies of these dental materials suggested that MPCA-Pv-247 corresponds to an indeterminate tetanure possibly related to Orkoraptor, a taxon of uncertain phylogenetic position at that moment, and MPCA-Pv-249 and 251 as possible abelisauroids. Three methods were carried out, namely, a cladistic analysis performed on a dentition-based data matrix, and a discriminant and cluster analyses performed in a large dataset including measurements of non-avian theropod teeth. The …