J64- Rare Eocarcharia dinops Dinosaur Tooth - Cretaceous Elrhaz Fm Tenere Desert Campo del Cielo (IAB-MG) Plioplatecarpinae Russell 1967

Plioplatecarpinae Russell 1967

Nigeria (2)

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This has led some to conclude that Daspletosaurus was the ancestor of Tyrannosaurus

It is the phalanx of the toe of a theropod dinosaur

J64- Rare Eocarcharia dinops Dinosaur Tooth - Cretaceous Elrhaz Fm Tenere Desert Campo del Cielo (IAB-MG) Plioplatecarpinae Russell 1967Scientific name: Eocarcharia dinops, Sereno and Brusatte, 2008Location: Gadoufaoua, Tner Desert, Niger. Geological Formation: Elrhaz FmAge: Lower Cretaceous, Aptian Albian stage ( 113 million years) Size (long): 2. 6cm = 1. 02 InchREF.: J64DESCRIPTION: Eocarcharia (meaning "dawn shark") is a genus of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Elrhaz Formation that lived in the Sahara 112 million years ago, in what today is the