Spinosaurus (meaning ‘spine lizard’) was the longest, and among the largest of all known predatory dinosaurs, and possessed many adaptations for a semiaquatic lifestyle. It lived in what is now North Africa during the Cretaceous period, between 112 and 93.5 million years ago. The new specimen — the 21 mm-long pedal ungual phalanx (a phalanx supporting a claw of the foot) — is from the smallest known individual of this giant, sail-backed dinosaur. It was discovered in 1999 in the Kem Kem Beds of Tafilalt region, south-eastern Morocco.
“Assuming the juveniles looked like smaller versions of the adults, the 21 mm-long claw phalanx from this small specimen would pertain to an early juvenile individual, 1.78 m-long, only just a little bit longer than the estimated length of the sole head of the largest adult Spinosaurus known to date,” the plaeontologists said.
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/smallest-spinosaurus-06052.html
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