Concavenator
Carcharodontosaurid dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous period / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Concavenator (meaning Cuenca hunter) is a genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that lived in Spain during the Early Cretaceous epoch, about 125 million years ago. The genus contains a single species, Concavenator corcovatus named and described in 2010 from a nearly complete skeleton collected from Las Hoyas fossil site of La Huérguina Formation.
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Concavenator | |
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Holotype specimen in articulation | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Carcharodontosauridae |
Genus: | †Concavenator Ortega et al. 2010 |
Species: | †C. corcovatus |
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†Concavenator corcovatus Ortega et al. 2010 | |
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Concavenator was a medium-sized carcharodontosaurid, reaching about 5–6 m (16–20 ft) in length and 320–400 kg (710–880 lb) in weight. Unlike most carcharodontosaurids, the neural spines of the last dorsal (back) vertebrae were tall, creating a sail-like structure