Carcharodontosaurus, Coloborhynchus, and Spinosaurus - - Animals of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa coloring pages

 

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Today's 

new drawing

 is a 

Carcharodontosaurus

 and a 

Pterosaur 

called 

Coloborhynchus.

Both animals 

are from 

North Africa. 

Carcarodontosaurus & Coloborhynchus near a River

Carcorodontosaurus and Coloborhynchus were animals that lived in the Mid-Cretaceous in what is now North Africa.  If you look in the background you will see a Spinosaurus.  They lived at the same time in the same place.  But Charcarodontosaurus was a land predator and Spinosaurus was primarily a water or river predator.  They probably only got in fights over food when there was a draught or something that interfered with the Spinosaur's ability to catch fish.  By the way, the name Carcharodontosaurus means "Shark Tooth."  The paleontologist that named this dinosaur thought its teeth looked a lot like shark teeth. 

The Pterosaur is a Coloborhynchus.  It was a large Pterosaur that ate fish.  It had a wingspan of up to 18 feet or about 5.4 meters.  There was more than one species of this type of large Pterosaur. This Genus was from the Ornithochirus group of Pterosaurs. 

NOTE:  This drawing, along with some other older ones below, are found, in printable form, by clicking on the Paleontology button up at the top of the page.  Scroll to the bottom of the list of drawings for the new drawing.  New drawings are always on the bottom of the list. 

Carcharodontosaurus

(This is an older drawing and looking at it now, 

I think I made the snout too robust and not long enough.

But I DO think the pattern of spots looks pretty cool!)

Spinosaurus with Spots

(This is another older drawing, but it is 

actually thought to be very

accurate for what a Spinosaurus looked like. 

 They lived much like very large crocodiles.

Spinosaurus was around 55 feet or about 17 meters long,

but it was built for fishing.)