[D] Carcharodontosaurus [sG]
Describer
Stromer, 1931
Time
Cretaceous Early Cretaceous Late Aptian Albian Cenomanian
Classification
Saurischia Theropoda Tetanurae Carnosauria Carcharodontosauridae
Diet
Carnivore
Fossilsite
Algeria Egypt Lybia Morocco Niger Tunisia
Typespecies
Carcharodontosaurus saharicus
Length
13.5 meter
Info
Genus - Skull
Carcharodontosaurus (Stromer, 1931) > Carcharodontosaurus saharicus (Deperet& Savornin, 1927) = Megalosaurus saharicus (Deperet& Savornin, 1927) Megalosaurus africanus (Huene, 1956) Carcharodontosaurus > Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis ( Brusatte and Sereno 2007)
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 Tyrannosaurus rex.
Stromer, 1931
Time
Cretaceous Early Cretaceous Late Aptian Albian Cenomanian
Classification
Saurischia Theropoda Tetanurae Carnosauria Carcharodontosauridae
Diet
Carnivore
Fossilsite
Algeria Egypt Lybia Morocco Niger Tunisia
Typespecies
Carcharodontosaurus saharicus
Length
13.5 meter
Info
Genus - Skull
Carcharodontosaurus (Stromer, 1931) > Carcharodontosaurus saharicus (Deperet& Savornin, 1927) = Megalosaurus saharicus (Deperet& Savornin, 1927) Megalosaurus africanus (Huene, 1956) Carcharodontosaurus > Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis ( Brusatte and Sereno 2007)
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 Tyrannosaurus rex.