Carcharodontosaurus

Carcharodontosaurus was genus in the Family. It was a large carnivore that lived in Northern Africa also in south America in the Early-Mid Cretaceous Period, the same time and place as Spinosaurus. It was among the largest predatory dinosaurs (13 meters long), nearly as long as or even longer than Tyrannosaurus.

In the game Jurassic Park: Explorer the following information is given about this creature: Native to Northern Africa, Carcharodontosaurus had an enormous jaw with long serrated teeth that were up to 8 inches. It's long muscular legs might have aloud it to run at speeds of up to 20 miles/hour.

Two species of the Carcharodontosaurus genus are known:
 * Carcharodarodontosaurus saharicus, described by Depéret and Savornin in 1927.
 * Carcharodarodontosaurus iguidensis, described by Brusatte and Sereno in 2007. It had a skull of 1.75 m in length (5.5 ft).

More real-life information: Carcharodontosaurus on Wikipedia.

Jurassic Park Franchise
Carcharodontosaurus does not appear in the original novels or movies. It does appear in a number of games.

Jurassic Park inspired games
Carcharodontosaurus is a playable character in Warpath: Jurassic Park. Its move pattern was the same as the Giganotosaurus and the Albertosaurus.

Carcharodontosaurus is available in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis as a four-star large carnivore. They prefer open areas with water. They are covered in black coating while the underparts are gray to white they also seem to have red crests over their eyes.When hunting faster prey it is known to wait in thick vegetation and ambush attacks. According to JP:OG, it seems to live on Sorna. In this game, it gets along well with fellow four-star dinosaur Acrocanthosaurus. The Carcharodontosaurus in JPOG slightly resembles a Giganotosaurus. That might be only because they are related.

Carcharodontosaurus is featured in the DVD game Jurassic Park: Explorer. A player earns a dinosaur when he/she wins a minigame, w hen the earned dinosa ur is a Carcharodontosaurus this video will be shown. The name is misspelled as Charcharadontosaurus.

Links
*myjurassicpark.com