Walking with Dinosaurs: Giganotosaurus

Giganotosaurus carolinii
Named by Rudolpho Coria and Leonardo Salgedo, 1995
Diet: Carnivore (Prey included sauropods such as the titanosaur Andesaurus and the rebbachisaur Limaysaurus; undescribed iguanodont whose scant remains were found in the Candeleros Formation)
Type: Carnosaur theropod (Giganotosaurine Carcharodontosaurid) dinosaur
Size: 40 to 43 feet (12 to 13 meters) long and 7 to 8.8 tons
Region: South America (Argentina)
Age: Late Cretaceous (99.6 to 97 million BC; Cenomanian)
Episode: Chased by Dinosaurs - Land of the Giants
Info: First discovered in the early 1990's by an amatuer fossil collector and mechanic, Rueben Carolin (Hence its specific name) near the Argentinian town of Villa El Chocon, Giganotosaurus, one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs or theropods, was slightly larger than Tyrannosaurus rex, but was less heavily-built and had a banana-sized and -shaped brain that was smaller, while its smaller and flat-sided teeth were sharp and serrated-edged, designed to cut and slice through flesh like steak-knife (causing prey to weaken and die from blood loss), instead of crunching through bone as in Tyrannosaurus'. Living in the woodlands and plains in what is now Patagonia, Argentina (Candeleros Formation) less than 100 million years ago during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period, Giganotosaurus was the region's alpha predator, at the top of the local food-chain, and living alongside it were the giant long-necked sauropods that were its main sources of prey.

Note: Based on 's skeletal work

Originally I was gonna Andesaurus bones around it, but it was hard and just wanna post the dinosaur.

So were now in the Cenomanian stage and were entering the giants of Patagonia, Argentina (and one from North Africa)

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