Mapusaurus

Mapusaurus
Temporal range: Turonian
Reconstructed skeletons of an adult and a juvenile (left)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: Carcharodontosauridae
Subfamily: Carcharodontosaurinae
Tribe: Giganotosaurini
Genus: Mapusaurus
Coria & Currie, 2006
Type species
Mapusaurus roseae
Coria & Currie, 2006

Mapusaurus (lit.'Earth lizard') was a giant carcharodontosaurid carnosaurian dinosaur from Argentina during the Turonian age of the Late Cretaceous.