Concavenator
Carcharodontosaurid dinosaur genus from the early Cretaceous period / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Concavenator is an extinct carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 130 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous period (Barremian age). The type species is C. corcovatus. Concavenator corcovatus means "Cuenca hunter with a hump".[2] The fossil was discovered in the Las Hoyas fossil site of Spain by paleontologists José Luis Sanz, Francisco Ortega, and Fernando Escaso from the Autonomous University of Madrid[3] and the National University of Distance Education.[2]
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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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