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Spinosaurids Baryonyx

The age of dinosaurs The sail ran the length of its were destroyed huge, heavy thumb
The
best fossils
back and was supported by rodlike
of Spinosaurus
bones measuring up to 6 ft (1.8 m).

by a wartime
Baryonyx had a
bombing raid in
1944.
Spinosaurus claw for catching fish. The long,

narrow snout
had conical teeth
that were perfect for
seizing slippery fish.

This dinosaur
had a wavy
sail that dipped
at the hip.

Ichthyovenator
Instead of a sail,
Suchomimus had
a low ridge running
Suchomimus
down its back.

Irritator had a Big, sharp, curved claws
bony crest that gave Suchomimus a good
extended over grip on its victims.
its eyes.

Irritator Irritator Spinosaurus

The biggest predatory dinosaur modern crocodile. It is likely that they used them
ever found is the spectacular in the same way—to catch big fish in shallow
Spinosaurus. At up to 46 ft (14 m) water. But we know that they also ate other
long, this large dinosaur was one of a dinosaurs, because a fossil of Baryonyx has
small group of similar hunters with jaws been found with the remains of a young
and teeth that were just like those of a Iguanodon in its stomach.

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