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As Acrocanthosaurus was a large predator, it is expected that it had an extensive home range and lived in many different environments in the area. [43] Potential prey animals include sauropods like Astrodon [49] or possibly even the enormous Sauroposeidon, [50] as well as large ornithopod like Tenontosaurus. [51]
Carcharodontosaurids include some of the largest land predators ever known: Giganotosaurus, Mapusaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, and Tyrannotitan all rivaled Tyrannosaurus in size. Estimates give a maximum weight of 8–10 metric tons (8.8–11.0 short tons) for the largest carcharodontosaurids, while the smallest carcharodontosaurids were ...
Great American Predator: In this episode, Acrocanthosaurus is depicted as an apex predator, strong enough to kill prey ten times its size, like Sauroposeidon (also known as Paluxysaurus). Afterward, a young Acrocanthosaurus is shown being scared off its kill by a pack of Deinonychus and being forced to hunt harder prey, like the ankylosaur ...
Altispinax altispinax (Paul, 1988) Rauhut, 2000. Altispinax (/ ˌæltɪˈspaɪnæks /; "with high spines") is a genus of large predatory theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period (Valanginian, 140 to 133 million years ago) of what is now the Wadhurst Clay Formation of East Sussex, England.
The neotype skull of C. saharicus is one of many allosauroid individuals to preserve pathologies, with signs of biting, infection, and breaks observed in Allosaurus and Acrocanthosaurus among others. [ 80 ] [ 81 ] This skull bears a circular puncture wound in the nasal and "an abnormal projection of bone on the antorbital rim". [ 81 ]
Giganotosaurus (/ ˌɡɪɡəˌnoʊtəˈsɔːrəs / GIG-ə-NOH-tə-SOR-əs[2]) is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina, during the early Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 99.6 to 95 million years ago. The holotype specimen was discovered in the Candeleros Formation of Patagonia in 1993 and is ...
Metriacanthosaurus was a medium-sized theropod with a femur length of 80 cm (31 in). Gregory S. Paul in 1988 estimated its weight at 1 tonne (1.1 short tons). [6] Thomas Holtz gave a length of 8 meters (26.2 feet). [7] Metriacanthosaurus was named for the height of its neural spines, which are actually not overly tall for theropods. [3]
There were few predators which could attempt to attack a full-grown Sauroposeidon, but juveniles were likely to be preyed on by the contemporary Acrocanthosaurus atokensis [18] (a carnosaur slightly smaller than a Tyrannosaurus), which likely were the apex predators in this region, [19] and the small dromaeosaur Deinonychus antirrhopus.