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Giganotosaurus (/ ˌɡɪɡəˌnoʊtəˈsɔːrəs / GIG-ə-NOH-tə-SOR-əs[2]) is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina, during the early Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 99.6 to 95 million years ago. The holotype specimen was discovered in the Candeleros Formation of Patagonia in 1993 and is ...
Mar 17, 2016 · The species name, Giganotosaurus carolinii, honors Carolini. In 1998, Argentine geologist and paleontologist Jorge Orlando Calvo discovered a second Giganotosaurus specimen, which consisted of the ...
Genus Giganotosaurus is made up of only one species, G. carolinii. Fossil remains of Giganotosaurus were first discovered in 1987 near Lake Ezequiel in Argentina’s Patagonia region. All subsequent fossils have been found in Patagonia as well. The name Giganotosaurus is Latin for “giant southern lizard.”
Giganotosaurus carolinii. Based on fossil found in Argentina. Cretaceous, 112 - 89 million years ago. Giganotosaurus belongs to the same group as the North American Allosaurus and has three fingers on each hand, typical of allosaurs. It displaced Tyrannosaurus rex as the largest meat-eating dinosaur when its discovery was announced in 1995.
In 1993, a remarkable specimen was discovered in the prov-ince of Neuqudn in Patagonia. The fossil represents one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs ever reported. Giganotosaurus carolinii (Coria and Salgado, 1995) had an estimated maxillary tooth row length of 92 cm, a 44 cm long quadrate, an estimated
Torvosauroidea4• G. carolinii is the largest theropod ever recorded from the Southern Hemisphere, and is probably the world's biggest predatory dinosaur, having a body 12.5 metres long and an ...
The largest Giganotosaurus is estimated to be 13.7 m (45 ft) long, 5-5.5 m (16.6-18.3 ft) tall, and weighed 5.2 tons. The specimen's skull was the size of a bathtub, measuring 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in). Giganotosaurus surpasses Tyrannosaurus rex in length by almost 2 m. . Giganotosaurus species. Giganotosaurus . carolinii. Paleobiology
