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Giganotosaurus
Taxonomy
Giganotosaurus was named by Coria and Salgado (1995). It is the type genus of Giganotosaurini.
It was assigned to Allosauroidea by Holtz (1996); to Tetanurae by Coria and Salgado (1995) and Novas (1997); to Neotetanurae by Coria (1998); to Allosauridae by Holtz (2000); to Giganotosaurinae by Coria and Currie (2006); to Carcharodontosaurinae by Brusatte et al. (2009), Carrano et al. (2012) and Paulina Carabajal and Currie (2012); to Carcharodontosauridae by Sereno et al. (1996), Larsson (1996), Hutchinson and Padian (1997), Novas (1997), Sereno (1997), Calvo (1999), Currie and Carpenter (2000), Lamanna et al. (2002), Rauhut (2003), Holtz et al. (2004), Allain (2005), Novas et al. (2005), Candeiro and Martinelli (2005), Brusatte and Sereno (2007), Sereno et al. (2008), Candeiro and Harris (2012), Candeiro et al. (2012), Furtado et al. (2013), Hendrickx and Mateus (2014) and Sanz et al. (2014); and to Giganotosaurini by Canale et al. (2013), Novas et al. (2013) and Csiki-Sava et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Allosauroidea by Holtz (1996); to Tetanurae by Coria and Salgado (1995) and Novas (1997); to Neotetanurae by Coria (1998); to Allosauridae by Holtz (2000); to Giganotosaurinae by Coria and Currie (2006); to Carcharodontosaurinae by Brusatte et al. (2009), Carrano et al. (2012) and Paulina Carabajal and Currie (2012); to Carcharodontosauridae by Sereno et al. (1996), Larsson (1996), Hutchinson and Padian (1997), Novas (1997), Sereno (1997), Calvo (1999), Currie and Carpenter (2000), Lamanna et al. (2002), Rauhut (2003), Holtz et al. (2004), Allain (2005), Novas et al. (2005), Candeiro and Martinelli (2005), Brusatte and Sereno (2007), Sereno et al. (2008), Candeiro and Harris (2012), Candeiro et al. (2012), Furtado et al. (2013), Hendrickx and Mateus (2014) and Sanz et al. (2014); and to Giganotosaurini by Canale et al. (2013), Novas et al. (2013) and Csiki-Sava et al. (2016).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1995 | Giganotosaurus Coria and Salgado |
| 1996 | Giganotosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 42A |
| 1996 | Giganotosaurus Larsson p. 47A |
| 1996 | Giganotosaurus Sereno et al. p. 989 fig. 4 |
| 1997 | Giganotosaurus Hutchinson and Padian p. 96 |
| 1997 | Giganotosaurus Novas p. 1 |
| 1997 | Giganotosaurus Sereno p. 457 |
| 1998 | Giganotosaurus Coria p. 160 |
| 1999 | Giganotosaurus Calvo p. 26 |
| 2000 | Giganotosaurus Currie and Carpenter p. 236 fig. 15 |
| 2000 | Giganotosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 13 fig. 5 |
| 2002 | Giganotosaurus Lamanna et al. p. 64 |
| 2003 | Giganotosaurus Rauhut p. 36 |
| 2004 | Giganotosaurus Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 75 |
| 2005 | Giganotosaurus Allain p. 83 |
| 2005 | Giganotosaurus Candeiro and Martinelli p. 11 |
| 2005 | Giganotosaurus Novas et al. p. 229 fig. 3 |
| 2006 | Giganotosaurus Coria and Currie p. 74 |
| 2007 | Giganotosaurus Brusatte and Sereno p. 914 |
| 2008 | Giganotosaurus Sereno et al. p. 4 |
| 2009 | Giganotosaurus Brusatte et al. p. 1055 fig. 3 |
| 2012 | Giganotosaurus Candeiro et al. p. 326 |
| 2012 | Giganotosaurus Candeiro and Harris p. 73 |
| 2012 | Giganotosaurus Carrano et al. p. 267 |
| 2012 | Giganotosaurus Paulina Carabajal and Currie p. 99 |
| 2013 | Giganotosaurus Canale et al. |
| 2013 | Giganotosaurus Furtado et al. p. 110 |
| 2013 | Giganotosaurus Novas et al. p. 184 |
| 2014 | Giganotosaurus Hendrickx and Mateus |
| 2014 | Giganotosaurus Sanz et al. p. 48 |
| 2016 | Giganotosaurus Csiki-Sava et al. p. 233 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Giganotosaurus Coria and Salgado 1995
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†Giganotosaurus carolinii Coria and Salgado 1995
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: base of the Late/Upper Cenomanian to the top of the Early/Lower Cenomanian or 99.60000 to 93.50000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Argentina (Neuquén) | G. sp. (51945) Tetanurae indet. (28460) Theropoda indet. (51944) | |
| Late/Upper Cenomanian - Turonian | Argentina (Río Negro) | G. carolinii (67296) |