Spinosaurus - Paleoecology

Paleoecology

The environment inhabited by Spinosaurus is only partially understood, and covers a great deal of what is now northern Africa. A 1996 study concluded from Moroccan fossils that Spinosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, and Deltadromeus "ranged across north Africa during the late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)." Those Spinosaurus that lived in what is now Egypt may have contended with shoreline conditions on tidal flats and channels, living in mangrove forests alongside similarly large dinosaurian predators Bahariasaurus (which may be synonymous with Deltadromeus) and Carcharodontosaurus, the titanosaur sauropods Paralititan and Aegyptosaurus, the 10-meter (33-ft) long crocodilian Stomatosuchus, and the coelacanth Mawsonia.