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In Late Cretaceous Sudan a young Carcharodontosaurus sees the last shadow in its life as a large dromaeosaurid jumps on it.

If takes all the unheard or unnamed titanosaurs it´s just fair I take all the unnamed raptors
I´ve only stumbled across this one while browsing on Frederick Spindler´s website. One of his calendars had a small painting of a large dromaeosaurid from Sudan. But this calendar was from 2004, and this raptor is still barely known! By searching on Google I couldn´t find much information about it: apparently it is a velociraptorine known from some teeth and toe bones found in the Wadi Milk Formation in Sudan, where remains of Bahariasaurus and Carcharodontosaurus have also been discovered, so apparently it is Cenomanian in age. I couldn´t find any information about its size apart from Frederick Spindler and thescelosaurus.com mentioning it is "large", which I would interpret as "bigger than Deinonychus".

As sparsely known as it is, nevertheless it´s the first evidence that there were dromaeosaurids in Africa, too. Bear in mind, LARGE dromaeosaurids.

EDIT: Apparently this is now getting described as a large unenlagiid named Maroccanoraptor, so this depiction is obviously outdated.

Description
In Late Cretaceous Sudan a young Carcharodontosaurus sees the last shadow in its life as a large dromaeosaurid jumps on it.

If takes all the unheard or unnamed titanosaurs it´s just fair I take all the unnamed raptors
I´ve only stumbled across this one while browsing on Frederick Spindler´s website. One of his calendars had a small painting of a large dromaeosaurid from Sudan. But this calendar was from 2004, and this raptor is still barely known! By searching on Google I couldn´t find much information about it: apparently it is a velociraptorine known from some teeth and toe bones found in the Wadi Milk Formation in Sudan, where remains of Bahariasaurus and Carcharodontosaurus have also been discovered, so apparently it is Cenomanian in age. I couldn´t find any information about its size apart from Frederick Spindler and thescelosaurus.com mentioning it is "large", which I would interpret as "bigger than Deinonychus".

As sparsely known as it is, nevertheless it´s the first evidence that there were dromaeosaurids in Africa, too. Bear in mind, LARGE dromaeosaurids.

EDIT: Apparently this is now getting described as a large unenlagiid named Maroccanoraptor, so this depiction is obviously outdated.