Carcharodontosaurus Stromer, 1931
Carcharodontosaurus Stromer, 1931
(Abh. bayer. Akad. Wiss., (N.F.) 9, 19.
NcZ) "shark-toothed lizard"
kahr-KAR-o-DON-to-SAWR-us (Carcharodon great white shark
(Gr. karkharodon "jagged toothed") + Gr. sauros "lizard") (m)
Stromer explains: named "for its mainly Carcharodon-like teeth" in the upper jaw,
"not recurved, almost bilaterally symmetrical but with convex edges";
the teeth have distinctive transverse bands and arcuate wrinkles near the crown margins.
For Megalosaurus saharicus Depret & Savornin, 1927. A nearly complete skull discovered
in southeastern Morocco in 1995 is larger than that of Tyrannosaurus, though more narrow with
a smaller braincase. Theropoda Carnosauria Carcharodontosauridae L. Cret. NAfr.
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