Meraxes gigas Meraxes
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Meraxes 10 m (33 ft) long
6 people holding hands
- Length
- 10 m (33 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (95–93.9 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Carcharodontosauridae
Meraxes is a genus of large carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Huincul Formation of Patagonia, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, Meraxes gigas.
What we know
- Named by Canale et al., 2022.
- Body length estimated at about 10 m.
- Fossils found in Argentina.