Ekrixinatosaurus

What it was like

Ekrixinatosaurus was a large abelisaurid, a family of predators with short, deep skulls and tiny arms. It is known from parts of the skull, jaws, backbone and limbs, which show a heavily built animal.

Its world

It lived about 113 to 110 million years ago, in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Candeleros Formation, where it shared the land with the giant predator Giganotosaurus, the small hunter Buitreraptor and sauropods such as Limaysaurus and Andesaurus.

How it was found

Calvo and colleagues named it in 2004 from one find. Its name refers to the blasting during building work that uncovered the bones.