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==== Previously assigned specimens ==== * A maxillary tooth recovered from the [[Villar del Arzobispo Formation]] of [[Spain]] was referred to ''Carcharodontosaurus'' in 1966.<ref>{{cite journal|language=es|first1=M.|last1=Crusafont-Pairó|first2=R.|last2=Adrover|year=1966|title=El primer representante de la clase mamíferos hallado en el Mesozoico de España|journal=Teruel|volume=35|pages=139–143}}</ref> However, it lacks the traits of carcharodontosaurid teeth and instead is more similar to that of other [[Allosauroidea|allosauroids]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Kuhne |first1=W. G. |last2=Crusafont-Pairo |first2=M. |date=1968 |title=Mamíferos del Wealdiense de Uña, cerca de Cuenca |url=https://www.raco.cat/index.php/ActaGeologica/article/download/74602/97493 |journal=Acta Geológica Hispánica |volume=3 |issue=5 |pages=133–134}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gascó |first1=Francisco |last2=Cobos |first2=Alberto |last3=Royo-Torres |first3=Rafael |last4=Mampel |first4=Luis |last5=Alcalá |first5=Luis |date=June 1, 2012 |title=Theropod teeth diversity from the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian–Berriasian) at Riodeva (Teruel, Spain) |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |volume=92 |issue=2 |pages=273–285 |doi=10.1007/s12549-012-0079-3 |bibcode=2012PdPe...92..273G |s2cid=129930988 }}</ref> * Bond and Bromley (1970) described teeth deriving from the [[Gokwe Formation]] of [[Zimbabwe]] as being similar to ''Carcharodontosaurus'', with Mickey Mortimer assigning them to the genus tentatively.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bond |first1=Geoffrey |last2=Bromley |first2=K. |date=December 1970 |title=Sediments with the remains of dinosaurs near Gokwe, Rhodesia |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=313–327 |bibcode=1970PPP.....8..313B |doi=10.1016/0031-0182(70)90104-5 |s2cid=128716797 }}</ref> However, later studies have found them to be indeterminate.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Munyikwa, D.|author2=Sampson, S. D.|author3=Rogers, R. R.|author4=Forster, C. A. |author5=Curry, K. A. |author6=Curtice, B. D. |date=1998 |title=Vertebrate palaeontology and geology of the Gokwe Formation, Zimbabwe |journal=Journal of African Earth Sciences |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=142}}</ref> * Teeth from the [[Alcântara Formation|Alcantara Formation]] of [[Brazil]] were placed in ''Carcharodontosaurus'' in 2002,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Medeiros |first1=Manuel |last2=Schultz |first2=Cesar |date=2002 |title=A fauna dinossauriana da 'Laje do Coringa', Cretaceo medio de Nordeste do Brasil |id={{BHL page|57292482}} |journal=Arquivos do Museo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro |volume=60 |issue=3 |pages=155–162 }}</ref> but this has been disputed based on its geographic origin.<ref name="Mortimer 2023 Carnosauria"/> * Partial specimens from [[Wadi Milk Formation]] were originally assigned to ''Carcharodontosaurus'', but were now considered to be indeterminate carcharodontosaurids, some of which are similar to the genus.<ref name="Mortimer 2023 Carnosauria"/> * Fossils from the [[Campanian]] [[Quseir Formation]] of western Egypt have been tentatively assigned to ''Spinosaurus'' and ''Carcharodontosaurus'',<ref name=Churcher1999>{{cite book |last1=Churcher |first1=C. S. |chapter=A note on the Late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna of the Dakhleh Oasis |pages=55–68 |editor1-last=Churcher |editor1-first=C. S. |editor2-last=Mills |editor2-first=Anthony J. |title=Reports from the Survey of the Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt, 1977-1987 |date=1999 |publisher=Oxbow Books |isbn=978-1-900188-49-4 }}</ref> but these specimens were never described in detail and thus classified as [[Theropoda]] indet.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Augustin|first1=F.J.|last2=Hartung|first2=J.|last3=Kampouridis|first3=P.|editor1=Hamimi, Z.|editor2=Khozyem, H.|editor3=Adatte, T.|editor4=Nader, Fadi H.|editor5=Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.|editor6=Zobba, Mohamed K.|editor7=Atfy, Haytham El|year=2023|chapter=Dinosaur Faunas of Egypt—The Terrestrial Late Cretaceous Vertebrate Record|title=The Phanerozoic Geology and Natural Resources of Egypt|pages=253–284|series=Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation|publisher=Springer, Cham|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-95637-0_9|isbn=978-3-030-95636-3}}</ref>
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