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Altispinax

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Altispinax
Conservation status
Conservation status: Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Infraorder: Tetanurae
Family: Spinosauridae
Genus: Altispinax
Species: A. dunkeri
Binomial name
Altispinax dunkeri
Huene, 1923

Altispinax (Meaning "High Spine") was a spinosaurid dinosaur which lived during the early Cretaceous of Europe.

The species type , Altispinax dunkeri (Dames, 1884 and von Huene, 1923), is known only from teeth. Other described species have since been moved to other genera, including Baryonyx. Thus Altispinax is now usually considered nomen dubium.

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