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Dinosaurs C

CARCHARODONTOSAURUS
   
DESCRIBER Stromer,1931
TIME Cretaceous Early Cretaceous Late
Aptian Albian Cenomanian
CLASSIFICATION Saurischia Theropoda Tetanurae Carnosauria Carcharodontosauridae  
DIET Carnivore
FOSSILSITE Egypt  Morocco Tunisia Algeria Lybia Niger
TYPE SPECIES CARCHARODONTOSAURUS saharicus
LENGTH 13.5 meter
INFO Carcharodontosaurus (Stromer,1931) > C. saharicus (Deperet & Savornin,1927) = Megalosaurus saharicus (Deperet & Savornin,1927) Megalosaurus africanus (Huene,1956)

Fragmentary skull with associated postcrania, isolated teeth isolated postcrania, Carcharodontosaurus saharicus, or "shark-toothed reptile from the Sahara." A team of theUniversity of Chicago lead by paleontologist Paul Sereno discovered the skull of Carchorodontosaurus

With a length of about five feet, four inches, the skull rivals in size the largest known skull of Tyrannosaurus rex. The brain cavity of the newly found skull is well-preserved and only half the volume of that known for T. rex.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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