Meraxes gigas Carnotaurus sastrei Approximate measurements of the Stenonychosaurus:

Approximate measurements of the Stenonychosaurus:

Longitud hocico-cola 85 mm

body and tail)

adapted for tearing through the flesh of its prey

Meraxes gigas Carnotaurus sastrei Approximate measurements of the Stenonychosaurus:Meraxes (M. gigas `Giant Dragon) is the only species of the extinct genus Meraxes, a carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur, which lived during the Cenomanian of the middle Cretaceous period, between 95 to 93 million years ago, in what is now South America. Meraxes was a large theropod, estimated to be about 10 meters long and weighing about 4. 5 tons. Its skull alone measured 1. 27 meters long, exceeding that of Acrocanthosaurus, which had a skull