Species
Valid Extinct

Meraxes gigas

Canale et al. 2022

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Allosauroidea Superfamily
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Carcharodontosauridae Family
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Carcharodontosaurinae Subfamily
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Giganotosaurini Tribe
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Meraxes Genus
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Meraxes gigas Species
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇷 Argentina
1
Geological formations
Huincul
1
Temporal distribution
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
1
Bibliography
Original description
J. I. Canale, S. Apesteguía, and P. A. Gallina, J. Mitchell, N. D. Smith, T. M. Cullen, A. Shinya, A. Haluza, F. A. Gianechini, P. J. Makovicky. 2022. New giant carnivorous dinosaur reveals convergent evolutionary trends in theropod arm reduction. Current Biology 32(14):3195-3202 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
J. I. Canale, S. Apesteguía, and P. A. Gallina, J. Mitchell, N. D. Smith, T. M. Cullen, A. Shinya, A. Haluza, F. A. Gianechini, P. J. Makovicky. 2022. New giant carnivorous dinosaur reveals convergent evolutionary trends in theropod arm reduction. Current Biology 32(14):3195-3202 DOI ↗