Concavenator corcovatus Ortega et al. 2010 (allosauroid)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Carcharodontosauridae

Full reference: F. Ortega, F. Escaco, and J. L. Sanz. 2010. A bizarre, humped Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain. Nature 467:203-206

Belongs to Concavenator according to E. Cuesta et al. 2018

See also Carrano et al. 2012, Cuesta et al. 2015, Lamanna et al. 2020, Llandres Serrano et al. 2013, Malafaia et al. 2019, Malafaia et al. 2020, Moratalla et al. 2017, Navarro-Lorbés et al. 2021, Ortega et al. 2010 and Sanz et al. 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MCCM-LH 6666, a skeleton. Its type locality is Las Hoyas (MCCM collection), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large limestone/packstone in the La Huérguina Formation of Spain.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Las Hoyas (MCCM collection)

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