Ostafrikasaurus
| Ostafrikasaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic, (Tithonian)
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| Speculative restoration and holotype tooth | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Spinosauridae |
| Genus: | †Ostafrikasaurus Buffetaut, 2012 |
| Species: | †O. crassiserratus
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| Binomial name | |
| Ostafrikasaurus crassiserratus Buffetaut, 2012
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Ostafrikasaurus was a carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of southeastern Tanzania.[1] It is known only from a fossil tooth that is 49 mm (1.9 in) long. Paleontologist Eric Buffetaut claims it is the oldest evidence of a Spinosaurid dinosaur (a type of crocodile-like dinosaur that ate fish); it appeared 148 million years ago.[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Buffetaut, Eric (2012). "An early spinosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania) and the evolution of the spinosaurid dentition". Oryctos. 10: 1–8.
- ↑ Rauhut, Oliver W. M. (2011). "Theropod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania)". Special Papers in Palaeontology. 86: 195–239.
