Concavenator

Concavenator is a large, sail-backed, meat-eating theropod from ancient Spain. It roamed this place during the Early Cretaceous period. Some scientists believed it may have been a signal device, or even a feature to attract female Concavenators. The scientific name of this species is Concavenator corcovatus.

Diet habits

Concavenator, according to science, was indeed a carnivore. Its common prey included sauropod dinosaurs such as Argentinosaurus, Rebbachisaurus and Diplodocus, as well as other large theropod dinosaurs, such as Suchomimus and Daspletosaurus.

Features

This beast had a huge hump on its back shaped like a sword. People have thought a lot for centuries that this species was a spinosaurid. But fossil records show that it was an allosaurid, a type of theropod dinosaur.

Popular culture

Concavenator has not appeared in many pop culture for long times of debating. The only evidence we know of Concavenator that is it was thought to be an addition of the film Jurassic Park, but instead, it is inactive in both Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna. The species had an inactive appearance in the toy stop-motion series Saurian Isle, in where, during its long active appearance in this series' special called Unseen Horrors, it was depicted as capable of killing other dinosaurs and eating them. Concavenator also made its inactive appearance in the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Gender

Some scientists believe that Concavenator had shark-like teeth.

The genders of Concavenator are probably both: males and females.

Concavenator Media

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  The dig site in 2002 before excavation

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  Fernando Escaso, Francisco Ortega, and José Luis Sanz examining the holotype of Concavenator

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  Size comparison of Concavenator, a ridge-backed theropod from Europe. Based on a skeletal by Randomdinos. Human silhouette from

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  Conventional restoration of Concavenator with scales, a sail, and a small amount of quills

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  Speculative restoration of Concavenator with a hump as a hypothetical thermoregulatory device

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  Restoration of the holotype skull

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  Mounted reconstructed skeleton

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  Allosaurus fragilis reconstruction by Fred Wierum. Proportions align with Hartman's reconstruction of UUVP 6000.

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  Artistic reconstruction of Neovenator salerii. Proportions align with Hartman; cranial integument is based on Barker et al. (2017).

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  An improved version of an existing reconstruction of the Cretaceous Nigerien carcharodontosaurid, Eocarcharia dinops.