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536 / Mesozoic
Mapusaurus
Mapusaurus roseae
This giant carcharodontosaurid shared plains with enormous sauropods and is known from a multi-individual bone bed.
View original image · 1600 × 1067- Time range
- About 97–93 million years ago
- Final stage
- Late Cretaceous
- Geographic range
- Open floodplain · Argentina
01 / DEFINITION & ECOLOGY
What was Mapusaurus?
Mapusaurus (Mapusaurus roseae) was an extinct organism known from About 97–93 million years ago, with a range in Open floodplain · Argentina.
Life and ecology
It sliced large prey with serrated teeth; the bone bed alone cannot prove cooperative hunting.
02 / DISAPPEARANCE
Why did Mapusaurus disappear?
Late Cretaceous changes in South American predators and habitats provide context, but the fossil record does not establish why the genus disappeared.
03 / EVIDENCE
How do scientists know about Mapusaurus?
Several age classes provide growth and aggregation evidence while social behavior remains open.
04 / SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Check the source record
Use the scientific name to compare taxonomy, occurrence records and the fossil record. Database coverage and classifications may differ.
05 / REVISION HISTORY
How has this record changed?
- Rewrote an extinction cause that presented environmental or faunal turnover as established; it is now given as context the record does not prove.
- Verified authoritative entity sources and added three responsive reconstruction sizes.
- Initial bilingual species record published.
06 / CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS