African Dinosaurs

• During the early part of the Mesozoic Era (the Triassic Period), Africa was joined with all the other continents in one super-continent known as Pangaea.
  
  
• By the Jurassic Period, Pangaea begun to break up into two smaller super-continents: Laurasia and Gondwanaland. Africa was part of the southern super-continent, Gondwanaland, which consisted of South America, Africa, India, Australia and Antarctica. Separating Africa from Asia, was the Tethys Sea (also sometimes known as the Tethys Ocean).
  
  
• By the Cretaceous Period, Gondwanaland begun to break-up: Africa separated from South America, Antarctica and India, and begun a slow journey Northwards. Thus, the Tethys Sea gradually shrank in size, and was to eventually disappear.

Dinosaur	Dinosaur Location
Abrictosaurus	Abrictosaurus lived in South Africa.
Afrovenator	Afrovenator lived in northern Africa.
Allosaurus	Allosaurus lived in North America, Africa and Australia.
Brachiosaurus	Brachiosaurus lived in North America and Africa (although some scientists argue that the African variety should be classified as a separate genus, which they call "Giraffatitan").
Carcharodontosaurus	Carcharodontosaurus lived in Africa.
Ceratosaurus	Ceratosaurus lived in North America, Africa, and at least parts of Europe (there is some evidence that Ceratosaurus lived in Portugal).
Giraffatitan	Giraffatitan lived in Africa.
Heterodontosaurus	Heterodontosaurus lived in South Africa.
Iguanodon	Iguanodon lived in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
Kentrosaurus	Kentrosaurus lived in Africa.
Lesothosaurus	Lesothosaurus lived in Lesotho and South Africa.
Majungasaurus	Majungasaurus lived in Madagascar.
Massospondylus	Massospondylus lived in North America and Southern Africa.
Melanorosaurus	Melanorosaurus lived in South Africa.
Nigersaurus	Nigersaurus lived in Africa.
Ouranosaurus	Ouranosaurus lived in Africa.
Paralititan	Paralititan lived in mangrove swamps and tidal flats on the shores of the Tethys Ocean, in what is today Egypt).
Rugops	Rugops lived in Niger.
Spinosaurus	Spinosaurus lived in Africa.
Suchomimus	Suchomimus lived in Africa.

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