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(07-23-2019, 01:46 AM)Spalea Wrote: One of the biggest carnivorous theropodia dinosaurs, carcharodontosaurus, even surpassing the famous t-rex in size: 13,50 meters long, weight estimated between 6,2 and 15 tons. Its name is called after the shark genus carcharodon because its tooth have the same characterisitcs, carcharodon meaning "sharp teeth". Skull size: 1m80. Mid Creaceous in North Africa.
In fact, Carcharodontosaurus saharicus was smaller than Giganotosaurus carolinii, which barely reached the 13.2 meters long (a highly estimated figure, as this large size was calculated from a very small fossil, the mandible fragment of the specimen MUCPv-95). The skull of Carcharodontosaurus was of c.160 cm, about the same than the holotype of Giganotosautus MUCPv-Ch1, and although slightly longer than the biggest T. rex skulls, there is still not consensus about its "nose", as it was reconstructed to "long". Scott Harman called it the "Pinocchio nouse" and probably it could be smaller.
About the weights, the giant Giganotosaurus was estimated about 7-8 tons at maximum, so Carcharodontosaurus was smaller than that and both of them smaller than T. rex.
Here is the image of the Carcharodontosaurus skull from the original paper of Sereno et al. (1996):
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Here is a good reconstruction from DevianArt artist Franoys, one of the best that I have saw:
Carnivorous dinosaurs other than the famous t-rex and spinosaurus..
