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.