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Spinosaurus
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Spinosaurus is only known from fragmentary remains. Size estimates range up to 18m, which would make it the longest meat eater, although more slender than T. rex or Giganotosaurus.
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- Pronounced
- SPINE-oh-SORE-us
- Meaning of name
- thorn lizard
- Length
- 18m
- Height
- 5m
- Weight
- 4000kg
- Teeth
- flat and blade-like
- Diet
- carnivorous
- Food
- fish and maybe other dinosaurs
- How it moved
- on 2 legs
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(95 - 70 million years ago) - Found in
- Egypt, Morocco
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Neotherapoda, Tetanurae, Spinosauroidea, Spinosauridae, Spinosaurinae, Spinosaurus
- Named by
- Stromer (1915)
- Type species
- aegyptiacus