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Irritator
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Irritator was quite like Spinosaurus. It is known only from a skull, so the sail is a guess.
The type species, Irritator challengeri was named after Professor Challenger from Arthur Conan Doyle's novel 'The Lost World', published in 1912.
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- Pronounced
- irr-it-ate-or
- Meaning of name
- irritator
- Length
- 6.5m
- Diet
- carnivorous
- When it lived
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Early Cretaceous
(112 - 99 million years ago) - Found in
- Brazil
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Neotherapoda, Tetanurae, Spinosauroidea, Spinosauridae, Spinosaurinae, Irritator
- Named by
- Martill, Cruickshank, Frey, Small and Clarke (1996)
- Type species
- challengeri