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Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
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Acrocanthosaurus
Acrocantho-saurus
- Pronunciation:
- ah-kroh-kan-tho-SORE-us
- Name meaning:
- 'high-spined lizard'
![Acrocanthosaurus](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources/nature-online/life/dinosaurs/dinosaur-directory/images/reconstruction/small/acrocantho.jpg)
- Type of dinosaur:
- large theropod
- Length:
- 12.0m
- Diet:
- carnivorous
- When it lived:
- Early Cretaceous, 115-105 million years ago
- Found in:
- Canada, USA
![Acrocanthosaurus milieu](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources/nature-online/life/dinosaurs/dinosaur-directory/images/reconstruction/small/AcrocanthosaurusC.jpg)
© Andrey Atuchin
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Carcharodontosauridae
- Named by:
- Stovall and Langston (1950)
- Type species:
- atokensis
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