Carcharodontosaurus Late Cretaceous Predator

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#Cenomanian Carcharodontosaurus Composite Cast • #Carcharodontosaurus, the most letters in a valid #dinossur genus AFAIK, beating #Pachycephalosaurus by 1 letter (I am not including #Micropachycephalosaurus as valid), means “shark-toothed lizard,” a name it earned from its distinctive teeth, which were long, serrated, and reminiscent of those of a great white shark. Though after looking at them a bit, I do wonder if the old-timers were on hallucinogens of some sort. Yeah, they are serrated and thin, but… I really need to photograph a #Carcharodon carcharias tooth next to one to truly experience what they were seeing :-). • The teeth, combined with its huge jaws, made it a top North African predator in the Late Cretaceous ~100 million years ago. Guestimated at 40ish feet in length and 7 tons, it was a beast! One that lived alongside #Spinosaurus and the large #sauropods #Paralatitan, #Rebbachisaurus, plus other as-yet-unnamed sauropods, including a #titanosaur. • Not that it ate adults of those giants, I suspect it fed on the young as, though large by #theropod #dinosaur standards, it was but a flesh wound to full adults. And, no, I don’t ascribe to #sauropods being walking meat lockers that predators can roll up on, take a bite, and flee. Aside-how thick was an adult sauropod’s skin? I know thickness varies but I am curious what a belly vs limb vs neck scale thickness was. • This cast has been controversial. It consists of individual bones that have been upscaled to match the size of the largest original material. It measures 64” from snout tip to back of the skull, that is 5’ 4” long! The #Tyrannosaurus on display in the same room is 52” or 4’ 4” long using the same points of measurement, though both are the same width. Considering Carch consists of individual bones, it will be awesome to see how it stacks up when a reasonably articulated specimen is found. • This neat cast is on display at the Brigham Young University Museum of Paleontology in Provo, Utah. The video is a result of a request to have something of scale alongside these sweet skulls. I clearly need to invest in a selfie stick! Props to all you Vloggers who effortlessly do these shots! • #FossilCrates

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