What is Carcharodontosauridae?
Carcharodontosauridae is a family of large predators with blade-like, serrated teeth, named after the great white shark genus. Members are known from North America, South America and Africa, and include some of the largest land predators found so far.
Because most genera are known from partial skeletons, length and weight estimates vary widely. The group is useful for studying how huge predators arose independently from tyrannosaurs.
How this group is defined here
Members are the 5 field notes whose family or immediate parent group in the Paleobiology Database catalogue is Carcharodontosauridae. The interpreted diet field across the group is carnivore, based on skeletal features rather than direct observation. Groups are revised when new fossils are described, and some genera are placed here with less certainty than others, so each field note records its sources and limits.
