Carcharodontosauria

† Carcharodontosauria was a clade of large carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that dominated apex predator niches across Gondwana and parts of Laurasia during the Cretaceous. Named for their shark-like serrated teeth, carcharodontosaurians included some of the largest land predators ever, such as Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus. Early Cretaceous material from Spain documents their presence in Europe, suggesting the clade was more broadly distributed before titanosaurian sauropods and abelisau