Concavenator

Also known as Lovingly called "Pepito"

Concavenator (meaning "Cuenca hunter") 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.

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Named after: Cuenca Province
Image: Concavenator Skull diagram.svg
Length: 6.0

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start time: 130000000-
end time: 125450000-
Commons category: Concavenator
taxon name: Concavenator
taxon rank: genus
location of discovery: Spain
temporal range start: Barremian
temporal range end: Barremian
time period: Early Cretaceous
main food source: carnivore

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Concavenator was a medium-sized carcharodontosaurian, reaching about in length and in weight. Unlike most carcharodontosaurians, the neural spines of the last dorsal (back) vertebrae were tall, creating a sail-like structure.

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