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Largest Meat Eating Dinosaurs. For a long time Tyrannosaurus rex king of the dinosaurs was thought to be the largest carnivorous dinosaur. The abelisaurids were a family of meat-eating dinosaurs that populated South America during the Cretaceous period the most famous member of the breed was Carnotaurus. Spinosaurus can live in both water and land. How many meat eating dinosaurs were there.
It lived during part of the Cretaceous period about 112 million to 97 million years ago. Lived during the Cretaceous period in North Africa. Wikimedia Commons GFDL 12 Although it wasnt the largest theropod of the Mesozoic Erathat honor as stated above belongs to the African SpinosaurusGiganotosaurus is secure in its crown as the largest meat-eating dinosaur of Cretaceous South America. How many meat eating dinosaurs were there. Top 10 biggest meat eaters. It is the first evidence of an extremely large meat-eating animal roaming a landscape otherwise dominated by a variety of herbivorous omnivorous and much smaller carnivorous dinosaurs Knoll said.
50-foot long creature lived in north African river systems in huge numbers during cretaceous period.
The importance of Eoabelisaurus is that its the first identified abelisaurid theropod to date from the Jurassic period about 170 million years ago an otherwise sparse stretch of time for dinosaur discoveries. This is the largest footprint that we have of a meat-eating dinosaur The footprint is 80cm in length which translates to ten metres in body length from snout to tail tip and to put that into perspective the largest known T-Rex was between 12 and 13 metres. Wikimedia Commons GFDL 12 Although it wasnt the largest theropod of the Mesozoic Erathat honor as stated above belongs to the African SpinosaurusGiganotosaurus is secure in its crown as the largest meat-eating dinosaur of Cretaceous South America. Weighing in at over 14 tons the first specimen found in Southern Argentina measured 41 feet from head to tail with its skull over five feet long. Spinosaurus live in the same place with another carnivores like Erectopus Paralititan Bahariasaurus and Deltadromeus. Chee Zee Jungle 2010 Kevin MacLeodUPDATEdo note that we have changed the title to Top 5 largest meat eating dinosaurs to avoid any confusion with.