Dinosaurs · Large theropod
Carcharodontosaurus
Say it kar-KAR-o-don-toe-sore-us. The name means ‘Carcharodon lizard’.
- Length
- 12.5 m
- Diet
- Meat-eater
- When
- Late Cretaceous99 to 94 million years ago
- Fossils found in
- Algeria, Egypt, Morocco
- Named by
- Stromer (1931)
- Family tree
- Dinosauria › Saurischia › Theropoda › Carcharodontosauridae
Large theropods. Big two-legged meat-eaters, such as Tyrannosaurus. See all 63
Lived at the same time
- Deltadromeus · same country
- Paralititan · same country
- Spinosaurus · same country
- Aegyptosaurus · same country
- Nigersaurus · same country
- Rebbachisaurus · same country
- Achillobator
- Buitreraptor
Other large theropods
- Achillobator Late Cretaceous
- Deltadromeus Late Cretaceous
- Garudimimus Late Cretaceous
- Mapusaurus Late Cretaceous
- Spinosaurus Late Cretaceous
- Giganotosaurus Late Cretaceous
- Segnosaurus Late Cretaceous
- Tyrannotitan Early Cretaceous
Source: Carcharodontosaurus in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.