Ostafrikasaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic, (Tithonian)
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Speculative restoration and holotype tooth | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Spinosauridae |
Genus: | †Ostafrikasaurus Buffetaut, 2012 |
Species: | †O. crassiserratus
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Binomial name | |
Ostafrikasaurus crassiserratus Buffetaut, 2012
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Ostafrikasaurus was a carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of southeastern Tanzania.[1] It is known only from a fossil tooth that is 49 mm (1.9 in) long. Paleontologist Eric Buffetaut claims it is the oldest evidence of a Spinosaurid dinosaur (a type of crocodile-like dinosaur that ate fish); It appeared 148 million years ago.[2]