The following dinosaurs were discovered in Africa by expedition teams led by Dr. Paul Sereno:
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Suchomimus tenerensis
"Crocodile Mimic"

Type: theropod, meat eater
Age: 100 million years old
Height at hip: 12 feet
Length: 36 feet
Discovery site: Niger, West Africa
Notes: Suchomimus was discovered in 1997 in the heart of the Sahara desert of Niger. It was named for is bizarre, narrow, 4-foot long skull, which ends in a cage of long, curved teeth, suggesting that, like crocodiles, this dinosaur ate fish. Suchomimus had powerful forelimbs and foot-long thumb claws. Suchomimus was the largest and most common predator of its day in Africa. Suchomimus belongs to the Spinosaur family of dinosaurs. Its closest relative is Baryonx, a spinosaur dinosaur discovered in England. The team will prospect the area where Suchomimus was discovered in Camp I

Afrovenator abakensis
"African Hunter"

Type: theropod, meat eater
Age: 135 million years old
Height at hip: 8 feet
Length: 27 feet
Discovery site: Niger, West Africa
Notes: Afrovenator was discovered in 1993. It is the most complete predatory dinosaur from the Cretaceous period ever discovered in Africa. Afrovenator's skull has rows of long, blade-shaped teeth for slicing into prey. Afrovenator's bones reveal that it was a cousin to Allosaurus, a 150-million year old dinosaur that lived in North America, however, Afrovenator has longer, more slender bones and was likely more light-weight and fleet footed than Allosaurus. The team will visit these age rocks in Camp III.

Jobaria tiguidensis
"Africa's Dinosaur Giant"

Type: Sauropod, plant eater
Age: 135 Million years old
Height at hip: 15 feet
Length: 70 feet
Discovery Site: Niger, West Africa
Notes: Jobaria was discovered in 1997. It was a primitive, long-necked dinosaur discovered in a mass-death site in the Sahara. With over 95% of its skeleton preserved, Joabaria is the most complete long-necked dinosaur ever discovered from the Cretaceous period. It was the centerpiece of the "Dinosaur Giants" exhibit at Navy Pier from January 14- March 19, 2000. The team will revisit the area where Jobaria was discovered in Camp III.

Deltadromeus agilis
"Agile River Runner"

Type: theropod, meat eater
Age: 90 million years old
Height at hip: 8 feet
Length: 25 feet
Discovery Site: Morocco
Notes: Deltadromeus was discovered in 1995 by Gabrielle Lyon. Deltadromeus has extraordinarily delicate and long limbs, making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed.

The team will visit 90-million year old beds in Niger during Camp IV.

Carcharodontosaurus
"Shark-toothed reptile"

Type: theropod, meat eater
Age: 90 million years old
Length: 45 feet
Skull length: 5.5 feet
Discovery site: Morocco
Notes: Carcharodontosaurus is Africa's answer to Tyrannosaurus. One of the largest carnivores that ever walked on earth, Carcharodontosaurus, had 6-inch long serrated teeth.

Sereno and his team unearthed the Carcharodontosaurus skull in the Moroccan Sahara in 1995, solving a mystery borne from the destruction of World War II. At the beginning of this century, fragmentary bones and some serrated teeth were discovered in Egypt and described in scientific literature.

Collected by Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach in central Egypt, these bones and teeth were housed in Munich's Bavarian State Collections of Paleontology and Historical Geology.

On the night of April 24, 1944 a Royal Air Force bombing run destroyed the dinosaur fossils, leaving modern paleontologists to wonder what kind of dinosaurs those fossils had come from.

Sereno solved the mystery when he matched the teeth in the Carcharodontosaurus skull with the literature descriptions of the Egyptian fossils destroyed in Munich over a half-century ago.

The team will visit 90-million year old beds in Niger during Camp IV.