Daily Dose of Prehistory: Back From Extinction 29

Irritator challengeri, named for the feelings the paleontologists who found the skull felt after buying it off of fossil dealers who had heavily damaged and altered it, was a genus of spinosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Brazil during the Early Cretaceous, around 110 million years ago. It was rather small for a spinosaurid, being only about 20 to 25 feet long and weighing around a ton. Like others of its family, it had conical, crocodile-esque teeth, enlarged claws on the first fingers of its hands, a sagittal crest on the top of its head, and a short sail running down its back. Irritator was likely semiaquatic like other spinosaurids and probably had a generalist diet, hunting and eating anything it could catch from small fish to medium-sized dinosaurs.

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