Genus
Valid Extinct

Concavenator

Ortega et al. 2010
Etymology Chasseur du Cuenca (province espagnole, lieu de la découverte)

Concavenator is a genus of carcharodontosaurian dinosaur that lived in Spain during the Early Cretaceous epoch, about 125 million years ago. The genus contains a single species, Concavenator corcovatus, named and described in 2010 from a nearly complete skeleton collected from the Las Hoyas fossil site of the La Huérguina Formation.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Concavenator
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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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Concavenator Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇪🇸 Spain
1
Geological formations
La Huérguina
1
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Concavenator corcovatus 126 Ma
Images 4
Bibliography
Original description
F. Ortega, F. Escaco, and J. L. Sanz. 2010. A bizarre, humped Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain. Nature 467:203-206 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
F. Ortega, F. Escaco, and J. L. Sanz. 2010. A bizarre, humped Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain. Nature 467:203-206 DOI ↗