The name means 'lizard with shark's teeth' because the teeth of Carcharodontosaurus recall those of Carcharodon, the elastmobranch genus to which the great white sharks belongs.
It discovered by Stromer in 1931 and found in North Africa. There are 3 classification Saurischia, Theropoda, Carcharodontosauridae.
It has 14 meters length, 4 metres height and 8 tonnes weight of dimensions. There food was carnivore and carrior eater.
According to reconstruction by paleontologists, Carcharodontosaurus was one of the largest carnivores ever to exist. Its body nonetheless looked elegant and slender, with a long tail, a strong neck , powerful hind limps, well-developed front limps and hands with three digits and sharps claws. The head was particularly impressive for its size of a human and for its dozen of very sharp teeth, up to 12 centimeters long.
Carcharodontosaurus came into the limelight in 1995 when the palaeontologist Paul Sereno and his team, working deep in the desert, discovered the remains of a new specimen a complete half-skull, some vertebrae, parts of the limps and the pelvis. It was a sensational discovery in that the head alone was almost 1 metre 70 centimetre long. This rivalled the skull of the largest Tyrannosaurus rex ever found.
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