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Giganotosaurus

Giganotosaurus carolinii

GIG-a-NOTE-oh-SORE-us· “giant southern lizard”

🦕 Dinosaur🕰️ Cretaceous🥩 carnivore🦴 Carcharodontosauridae

13 m

Length

3.5 m

Height

8 t

Weight

One of the largest land predators ever discovered, a carcharodontosaurid from Patagonia that rivalled or slightly exceeded Tyrannosaurus in length. It had a long, low skull filled with blade-like teeth built for slicing flesh from giant sauropod prey.

When

Late Cretaceous, ~99–97 million years ago

Found in

Argentina

Discovered

Rubén D. Carolini, 1993

Did you know?

Slightly longer than Tyrannosaurus rex, though more lightly built.
Named after Rubén Carolini, who discovered it in Patagonia in 1993.
Its thin, blade-like teeth were suited to slashing flesh rather than crushing bone.

Artwork: Dmitry Bogdanov, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.