Dinosaurs, North Africa
Large theropod claw
Carcharodontosaurus sp.
A claw phalanx of Carcharodontosaurus, 26 centimetres long — the bony core of the horny sheath.
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- Epoch
- Cretaceous period
- Age
- 100–94 Mya
- Origin
- North Africa
- Size
- ≈ 26 cm
- Classification
- Genus Carcharodontosaurus, large theropods
- Habitat
- Cretaceous North Africa, Cenomanian age
- Ref.
- R–0221
In the Cenomanian age, some 100–94 million years ago, the genus Carcharodontosaurus — the “shark-toothed lizard” — contested the top of the North African food chain with Spinosaurus; it was one of the largest predatory dinosaurs of its time.
The exhibit is a claw phalanx, that is, the bony core of the claw. In life it was covered by a horny sheath, and the claw was noticeably longer and sharper than what we see now.
The length of the phalanx is about twenty-six centimetres.
A single bone of such size conveys the scale of the animal more precisely than any description.
In life
Carcharodontosaurus on the bank of a Cretaceous floodplain in North Africa: the snout with its tooth row and the small three-fingered forelimbs with claws appear in a single frame. The genus is identified from a claw; the appearance is generalized.