Carcharodontosaurus is a genus of large carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed during the Cenomanian stage of the mid-Cretaceous Period in Northern Africa.

When did Carcharodontosaurus go extinct?

The last definite members of the allosaurs, the Carcharodontosauridae, went extinct around 90 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period [3]. It was only after the decline of allosaurs that tyrannosaurs managed to evolve larger size and came to be the dominant land predators of their environment.

Why did Carcharodontosaurus go extinct?

iguidensis. Populations of carcharodontosaurids may have become cut-off from each other and this gave rise to new species of Carcharodontosaurus. ... The loss of habitat probably led to the demise of the ecosystem and the vulnerable apex predators such as the carcharodontosaurids and the spinosaurids became extinct.