[D] Carcharodontosaurus saharicus [Su] [T]
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; ’Continental intercalaire’ (Gharyan) Lybia; ’Ci’ Adrar Tamenghest Wargla, Algeria; ’Ci’ Agadez, Niger
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Carcharodontosaurus
Length
13.5 meter
Info
Typespecies - 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)
(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)
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.
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; ’Continental intercalaire’ (Gharyan) Lybia; ’Ci’ Adrar Tamenghest Wargla, Algeria; ’Ci’ Agadez, Niger
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Carcharodontosaurus
Length
13.5 meter
Info
Typespecies - 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)
(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)
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.