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CARCHARODONTOSAURUS saharicus |
| DESCRIBER | Deperet & Savornin,1927 |
| TIME | Cretaceous
Early Cretaceous
Late Aptian Albian Cenomanian |
| CLASSIFICATION | Saurischia Theropoda Tetanurae Carnosauria Carcharodontosauridae |
| DIET | Carnivore |
| FOSSILSITE | Baharija Formation Marsa Matruh Egypt Tegana Formation Ksar-es-Souk Morocco Chenini Formation "Conitental intercalaire" Medinine Tunisia "Ci" Adrar Tamenghest Wargla Algeria "Ci" Gharyan Lybia "Ci" Agadez Niger |
| FALL UNDER | CARCHARODONTOSAURUS |
| LENGTH | 13.5 meter [Cranial Anatomy] |
| INFO |
Carcharodontosaurus (Stromer,1931) > C. saharicus (Deperet & Savornin,1927) = Megalosaurus saharicus (Deperet & Savornin,1927) Megalosaurus africanus (Huene,1956) (IPHG 1922 X46) (~11.0 m; ~2.8 tons) maxilla lacking nasal process, teeth, nasal, parietal, cervical vertebrae, caudal vertebrae, manual ungual, ilium, pubis (>800 mm), femur (1.26 m), fibula (880 mm) (Stromer 1931, Rauhut 1995) (SGM-Din 1) (~11.1 m; ~2.9 tons) skull lacking premaxilla (~1.6 m) (Sereno, Dutheil, Iarochene, Larsson, Lyon, Magwene, Sidor, Varricchio and Wilson 1996) Even the holotype of Carcharodontosaurus is huge, about as large as the referred skull. [M.Mortimer] |
