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Carcharodontosauridae

Concavenator corcovatus

"Cuenca hunter"

Generic theropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Concavenator 6 m (19.7 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic theropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Concavenator
Length
6 m (19.7 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (125 Mya)
Place
Spain
Food
Carnivore
Clade
Carcharodontosauridae
Concavenator reconstruction by Ferahgo the Assassin (Emily Willoughby, e.deinonychus@gmail.com) http://emilywil
Reconstruction · Ferahgo the Assassin (Emily Willoughby, e.deinonychus@gmail.com) http://emilywil (CC-BY)

Concavenator (meaning “Cuenca hunter”) is a genus of carcharodontosaurian 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.

Concavenator was a medium-sized carcharodontosaurian, reaching about 5 – 6 m in length and 320 – 400 kg in weight. Unlike most carcharodontosaurians, the neural spines of the last dorsal (back) vertebrae were tall, creating a sail-like structure.

What we know

  • Named by Ortega et al. 2010.
  • Body length estimated at about 6 m.
  • Fossils found in Spain.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Concavenator — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.