#eocarcharia

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genus: eocarcharia

one of the original "shark toothed" dinosaurs with a skull that gave it a menacing glare, it has confusion and scare skills on top of its ultra quake team skill that hits AZ and SZ

Happy Dinosaur Day: Eocarcharia is a genus of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now North Africa during the Aptian and Albian stages of the early cretaceous period some 125 to 112 mya. The holotype specimen of eocarcharia consisting of a partial skull was uncovered in the year 2000 during an expedition to the Elrhaz formation led by University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno. These remains where found alongside the remains of an abelisaurid named Kryptops. Yet in wouldn’t be until 2008 that the animal would be formally named and described by Dr. Sereno and Dr. Brusatte. Since then some additional post cranial remains have been recovered/ reassigned from other genuses. The type and only species is Eocarcharia dinops which roughly translates to dawn shark with fierce eyes, with the specific name being in reference to the fact that Eocarcharia’s brow is swollen into a massive band of bone, giving it a menacing glare. Reaching roughly 19 to 26ft (6-8m) in length and 2,200 to 4,400lbs (1,000 to 2,000kgs) in weight, Eocarcharia would have been one of the largest predators of its environment. Likely using its sharp blade like teeth to dispatch various prey in the form of the sauropods, ornithopods, crocodiliomorphs, and smaller theropods it shared its environment with.

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Kryptops is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur that lived throughout what is now North Africa during the middle Cretaceous period some 115 to 105 million years ago. The holotype specimen consisting of a partial skull, some ribs, vertebrae, and an articulated pelvic girdle and sacrum where unearthed in 2000 at the Gadoufaoua locality in the western Ténéré Desert, in rocks of the Aptian–Albian-age Elrhaz Formation by a paleontological expedition lead by Paul Sereno. These remains where found alongside the remains of a carcharodontosaurid named eocarcharia. Hower it wouldn’t be until 2008 that the animal would be formally named and described as Kryptops palaios by Dr. Sereno and Dr. Brusatte. The genus name means "covered face", in reference to evidence that the face bore a tightly adhering covering. With the specific name palaios meaning "old". Reaching around 19 to 23ft (6 to 7m) in length and 1,650–2,450lbs (750–1,100 kgs) in weight, kryptops was a medium-sized theropod and one of the earliest-known abelisaurids. There has been some debate on krytops’s placement and even validity as a genus, as in 2012 Matthew Carrano and colleagues found Kryptops palaios to be a chimera, and that its pelvis and sacrum found some 50ft (15m) from the holotypic skull to actually belong to the carcharodontosaurid Eocarcharia dinops. Yet Sereno and Brusatte performed a cladistic analysis which included these bones and found Kryptops to be the most basal abelisaurid. In life kryptops were likely ambush predators, using a bite-and-hold tactic to hunt large prey such as the ornithopods and sauropods in shared its environment with.

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