They were first described in 1931 by the German paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach, who mistakenly dubbed the species the Carcharodontosaurus saharicus. In addition to the data and ...

At the time of the photos, the fossils were thought to belong to a large theropod dinosaur called Carcharodontosaurus — but closer inspection of the photos revealed a prominent horn, an enlarged ...

Stromer assigned the fossil to the genus Carcharodontosaurus, shark-toothed lizard. At about 10 meters long, it was one of the largest known land-based carnivores in the history of the Earth ...