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Africa JurAssiC period site

AfricA’s dinosAurs Are known from about 80 locations. Key CretACeous period
The continent’s oldest dinosaurs date to the Late Triassic,
about 200 million years ago, and are found in the south,
particularly in South Africa, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe. The same
region also accounts for Jurassic specimens, but it is the east AegyptosAurus
African discoveries at Tendaguru, Tanzania, that really define
Africa’s dinosaurs of this period. The best examples of Cretaceous
dinosaurs, from 70 million years ago, belong to Egypt, Morocco, and
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Algeria in north Africa, where giant carnivores and herbivores lived.

BArosAurus lesothosAurus

Length: 49 ft (15 m)
Pronunciation: ee-jip-toe-sore-us
Meaning: “Egyptian lizard”
CArChArodontosAurus

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Length: 89 ft (27 m) Length: 3 ft (1 m)
Pronunciation: ba-roh-sore-us Pronunciation: le-so-toe-sore-us
Meaning: “heavy lizard” Meaning: “Lesotho lizard”
dryosAurus MAssospondylus 10

Length: 49 ft (15 m)
Pronunciation: kar-kar-o-don-toe-sore-us
Meaning: “Carcharodon lizard”
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2 pArAlititAn

Length: 13 ft (4 m) Length: 16 ft (5 m)
Pronunciation: dry-oh-sore-us Pronunciation: mass-oh-spon-di-luss
Meaning: “oak lizard” Meaning: “massive vertebrae”
heterodontosAurus syntArsus

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Length: 89 ft (27 m)
Pronunciation: pa-ral-ih-tie-tan
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3 Meaning: “tidal giant”
spinosAurus
Length: 4 ft (1.2 m) Length: 10 ft (3 m)
Pronunciation: het-er-oh-don-toh-sore-us Pronunciation: sin-tar-sus
Meaning: “different-teeth lizard” Meaning: “fused tarsus”
KentrosAurus VulCAnodon

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Length: 16 ft (5 m) Length: 21 ft (6.5 m) Length: 49 ft (15 m)
Pronunciation: ken-troh-sore-us Pronunciation: vul-kan-oh-don Pronunciation: spy-noh-sore-us
Meaning: “spiky lizard” Meaning: “volcano tooth” Meaning: “thorn lizard”

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