Species
Valid Extinct

Giganotosaurus carolinii

Coria and Salgado 1995

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Theropoda Unranked clade
Neotheropoda Unranked clade
Averostra Unranked clade
Tetanurae Unranked clade
Allosauroidea Superfamily
Carcharodontosauridae Family
Giganotosaurus Genus
Giganotosaurus carolinii Species
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇷 Argentina
3
Geological formations
Huincul
1
Temporal distribution
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
3
Bibliography
Original description
R. A. Coria and L. Salgado. 1995. A new giant carnivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 377:224-226 DOI ↗
Bibliography (3)
L. J. Pazo and S. Apesteguía. 2012. Nuevos restos craneanos de Carcharodontosauridae (Theropoda, Tetanurae) de “La Buitrera”: provincia de Río Negro, Argentina [New cranial remains of Carcharodontosauridae (Theropoda, Tetanurae) from “La Buitrera”: Río Negro province, Argentina]. XXVI Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados. I Jornadas Argentinas Técnicas en Paleontología de Vertebrados. Resúmenes. Ameghiniana 49(4 (suppl.)):R54-R55
J. O. Calvo. 1999. Dinosaurs and other vertebrates of the Lake Ezequiel Ramos Mexía area, Neuquén-Patagonia, Argentina. Y. Tomida, T. H. Rich, and P. Vickers-Rich (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:13-45
R. A. Coria and L. Salgado. 1995. A new giant carnivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 377:224-226 DOI ↗