At the time of the photos, the fossils were thought to belong to a large theropod dinosaur called Carcharodontosaurus — but closer inspection of the photos revealed a prominent horn, an enlarged ...
At the time, paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach (1871-1952) assigned the fossil to the genus Carcharodontosaurus, meaning shark-toothed lizard. Measuring about 10 metres long ...