Genus
Valid Extinct

Concavenator

Ortega et al. 2010

Concavenator is a genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that lived in Spain during the Early Cretaceous epoch, about 125 million years ago. The genus contains a single species, Concavenator corcovatus, named and described in 2010 from a nearly complete skeleton collected from the Las Hoyas fossil site of the La Huérguina Formation.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Concavenator
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Aspecto del fósil del dinosaurio carnívoro Concavenator corcovatus ("el cazador jorobado de Cuenca") que vivió hace algo mas de 125 millones de años (durante el Cretácico Inferior) en Las Hoyas (Cuenca). El fosil represente el ejemplar más completo conocido de un terópodo carcarodontosaurio. Fotografía: Santiago Torralba © UNED Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia · 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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Concavenator Genus
Measurements
Length
5,2 m ⓘ
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇪🇸 Spain
1
Geological formations
La Huérguina
1
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Concavenator corcovatus 126 Ma
Images 4
Bibliography
Original description
F. Ortega, F. Escaco, and J. L. Sanz. 2010. A bizarre, humped Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain. Nature 467:203-206 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
F. Ortega, F. Escaco, and J. L. Sanz. 2010. A bizarre, humped Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain. Nature 467:203-206 DOI ↗