†Acrocanthosaurus Stovall and Langston, Jr. 1950 (allosauroid)
Reptilia - Avetheropoda - Carcharodontosauridae
PaleoDB taxon number: 38597
Full reference: J. W. Stovall and W. Langston, Jr. 1950. Acrocanthosaurus atokensis, a new genus and species of Lower Cretaceous Theropoda from Oklahoma. American Midland Naturalist 43(4):686-728
Parent taxon: Carcharodontosauridae according to C. Hendrickx and O. Mateus 2014
Sister taxa: Carcharodontosaurinae, Carcharodontosaurus, Concavenator, Eocarcharia, Giganotosaurus, Kelmayisaurus, Mapusaurus, Megalosaurus inexpectatus, Sauroniops, Shaochilong, Taurovenator, Unquillosaurus, Veterupristisaurus
Subtaxa: Acrocanthosaurus atokensis
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore