When Did Carcharodontosaurus Go Extinct?

The last definite members of the allosaurs, the Carcharodontosauridae, went extinct around 90 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period [3]. It was only after the decline of allosaurs that tyrannosaurs

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The species Tyrannosaurus rex (rex meaning "king" in Latin), often called T. rex or colloquially T-Rex, is one of the best represented of these large theropods. ... It was the last known member of the tyrannosaurids and among the last non-avian dinosaurs to exist before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
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managed to evolve larger size and came to be the dominant land predators of their environment.

Why did Carcharodontosaurus go extinct?

iguidensis. Populations of carcharodontosaurids may have become cut-off from each other and this gave rise to new species of Carcharodontosaurus. ... The loss of habitat probably led to the demise of the ecosystem and the vulnerable apex predators such as the carcharodontosaurids and the spinosaurids became extinct.

What happened to the Carcharodontosaurus?

The Type Fossil of Carcharodontosaurus Was Destroyed in World War II. Not only human beings suffer the depredations of war: in 1944, the stored remains of Carcharodontosaurus (the ones discovered by Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach) were destroyed in an Allied raid on the German city of Munich.

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