Subfamily
Valid Extinct

Carcharodontosaurinae

Brusatte and Sereno 2007

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
5
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Carcharodontosaurinae
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Science Museum - Carcharodontosaurus Skull - 2014 © Matthew Deery · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Allosauroidea Superfamily
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Carcharodontosauridae Family
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Carcharodontosaurinae Subfamily
Fossil sites 5 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇷 Argentina
4
🇷🇴 Romania
1
Geological formations
Cerro Barcino
3
Cochirleni
1
Huincul
1
Temporal distribution
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
1
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
3
Valanginian (137.05–132.6 Ma)
1
Synonyms (1)
Giganotosaurinae subjective synonym of Carcharodontosaurinae
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
S. Brusatte and P. C. Sereno. 2007. Phylogeny of Allosauroidea (Dinosauria: Theropoda): new analysis, comparisons, and sources of disagreement. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):54A
Bibliography (4)
J. I. Canale, S. Apesteguía, and P. A. Gallina, J. Mitchell, N. D. Smith, T. M. Cullen, A. Shinya, A. Haluza, F. A. Gianechini, P. J. Makovicky. 2022. New giant carnivorous dinosaur reveals convergent evolutionary trends in theropod arm reduction. Current Biology 32(14):3195-3202 DOI ↗
Z. Csiki-Sava, S. L. Brusatte, and S. Vasile. 2016. “Megalosaurus cf. superbus” from southeastern Romania: the oldest known Cretaceous carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and its implications for earliest Cretaceous Europe-Gondwana connections. Cretaceous Research 60:221-238 DOI ↗
M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300 DOI ↗
F. E. Novas, S. de Valais, and P. A. Vickers-Rich, T. H. Rich. 2005. A large Cretaceous theropod from Patagonia, Argentina, and the evolution of carcharodontosaurids. Naturwissenschaften 92:226-230 DOI ↗