†Giganotosaurus Coria and Salgado 1995 (allosauroid)
Reptilia - Avetheropoda - Carcharodontosauridae
PaleoDB taxon number: 54540
Full reference: R. A. Coria and L. Salgado. 1995. A new giant carnivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 377:224-226
Parent taxon: Carcharodontosauridae according to C. Hendrickx and O. Mateus 2014
Sister taxa: Acrocanthosaurus, Carcharodontosaurinae, Carcharodontosaurus, Concavenator, Eocarcharia, Kelmayisaurus, Mapusaurus, Megalosaurus inexpectatus, Sauroniops, Shaochilong, Taurovenator, Unquillosaurus, Veterupristisaurus
Subtaxa: Giganotosaurus carolinii
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore