Concavenator
Concavenator corcovatus
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.
Concavenator was a medium-sized carcharodontosaurian, reaching about 5–6 m (16–20 ft) in length and 320–400 kg (710–880 lb) in weight. Unlike most carcharodontosaurians, the neural spines of the last dorsal (back) vertebrae were tall, creating a sail-like structure.
- Family
- Carcharodontosauridae
- Order
- Saurischia
- Period
- Cretaceous (130.0–125.0 Ma)
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- 6.0 m
- Weight
- 320–400 kg
- Type locality
- Las Hoyas, Cuenca, Spain
- Holotype
- MCCM-LH 6666
- PBDB
- txn:170753