Spinosaurus

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Spinosaurus
Fossil range: mid Cretaceous

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Superfamily: Megalosauroidea
Family: Spinosauridae
Genus: Spinosaurus
Stromer, 1915
Species
  • S. aegyptiacus (type)
  • ?S. marocannus

Spinosaurus was a huge meat eating dinosaur. It grew up to 15 meters long. It had a sail on its back like Dimetrodon which was used to help control its body temperature. It lived in the Sahara Desert 95 million years ago.

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