Carcharodontosaurus grew up to 45 feet long (13.5 m), perhaps weighing up to 8 tons. It had a skull 6 feet long (1.8).
It had large, powerful jaws with long, serrated, sharp teeth up to 8 inches long. Although Carcharodontosaurus was larger than T-rex, it’s brain was smaller. Carcharodontosaurus was closely related to Giganotosaurus but not to T-rex. Carcharondontosaurus was a more primitive dinosaur than T-rex.
Although parts of these large carnivorous dinosaurs were discovered some time ago, their huge size has just recently come to light. The first almost complete Carcharodontosaurus discovered was being studied in Germany but was destroyed by Allied bombing during WWII. A recently unearthed specimen was reported to have the largest head of any theropod known, larger than T-rex.
Carcharodontosaurus remains have been found in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria. Libya and Niger. These teeth were found in the “Taouz” region of the Sahara desert in Morocco.
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The Dinosaur fossil teeth are from Erfoud, Africa. These teeth are from on of the largest theropods, related to the
Allosaurus and Giganotosaurus, the Carcharodontosaurus saharicus, which means:
shark-toothed lizard of the Sahara Desert.
This North African carnosaur had a massive tail, a bulky body, and heavy bones. Its arms were short and had three-fingered hands with sharp claws.
These great specimens are from the Cretaceous age 65-135 Million years.
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