Dinosaur
Concavenator
Two tall back bones formed a narrow raised area in front of its hips.
Two very tall vertebrae gave Concavenator a narrow raised section just in front of its hips.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Concavenator at a glance
- Diet
- Carnivore
- It is interpreted as a consumer of other animals. Hunting and scavenging are not mutually exclusive behaviors.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Carcharodontosauridae
- Carcharodontosaurids
- Fossil locations
- Spain
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Concavenator
It is known from an almost complete skeleton found in Las Hoyas and described in 2010. It was a medium-sized theropod, about five or six meters.
The almost complete skeleton of Las Hoyas allows this feature to be related to the rest of the body. A striking structure is best understood when it retains its position within the animal.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Concavenator corcovatus
Wikipedia contributors · Spanish source
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- Concavenator
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- Carcharodontosauridae
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- Living birds
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Existing English translations have been selected and arranged for this encyclopedia. Repeated period and diet text is omitted where those fields already carry it. Unknown facts remain unfilled; unreviewed geological age phrases are omitted and period labels replace numerical ages.
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