Altispinax

Altispinax; Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, (Valanginian) ;
	Holotype (NHMUK R1828) illustrated c. 1850s
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Clade:	†Carnosauria
Genus:	†Altispinax; von Huene, 1923
Species:	†A. dunkeri
Binomial name
	†Altispinax dunkeri; von Huene, 1923
Synonyms
	Megalosaurus dunkeri? Dames, 1884; Acrocanthosaurus altispinax Paul, 1988; Altispinax "lydekkerhueneorum" Pickering, 1995; Becklespinax altispinax (Paul, 1988) Olshevsky, 1991; Altispinax altispinax (Paul, 1988) Rauhut, 2000;

Altispinax (/ˌæltɪˈspaɪnæks/; "with high spines") is a genus of large predatory theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period (Valanginian, 140 to 133 million years ago) of what is now the Wadhurst Clay Formation of East Sussex, England.