Concavenator corcovatus Concavenator
"Cuenca hunter"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Concavenator 6 m (19.7 ft) long
4 people holding hands
- Length
- 6 m (19.7 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125 Mya)
- Place
- Spain
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Carcharodontosauridae
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.