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Meraxes
Genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Meraxes is a genus of large carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Huincul Formation of Patagonia, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, Meraxes gigas.[1]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Carcharodontosauridae |
Tribe: | †Giganotosaurini |
Genus: | †Meraxes Canale et al., 2022 |
Species: | †M. gigas |
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†Meraxes gigas Canale et al., 2022 | |
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