Identity card: Acrocanthosaurus

IDENTITY CARD
Name	Acrocanthosaurus
Length	up to 12 m
Weight	1-4 tons
Age	Early Cretaceous
Distribution	USA (Oklahoma, Texas)

General information

Acrocanthosaurus, which means "tail-spined lizard" was named by the palaeontologists J. Willis Stovall and Wann Langston Jr. in 1950.
Acrocanthosaurus was a carnivorous dinosaur with tall spines on its neck. It was the biggest predator living in North America during the Cretaceous.