| Pandoravenator | |
|---|---|
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| Reconstruction of Pandoravenator fernandezorum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Genus: | †Pandoravenator |
| Species: | †P. fernandezorum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Pandoravenator fernandezorum Rauhut and Pol, 2017 | |
Pandoravenator was a genus of theropod dinosaur, living in the Jurassic era, during the Oxfordian and Tithonian epochs, about 163 to 145 million years ago in the territory of present-day Patagonia (Chubut Province). Fossils (in the form of a fragmentally preserved postcranial skeleton) of this dinosaur were discovered in the sediments of the Cañadón Calcareo formation and were scientifically described in 2017 by paleontologists Oliver Rauhut and Diego Pol. The type and only known species is Pandoravenator fernandezorum.[1]
Description[]
Pandoravenator was a small carnivorus theropod that hunted mid-sized sauropods.
See also[]
- Timeline of Ceratosaur research
References[]
- ↑ (14 November 2017) "A theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Cañadón Calcáreo Formation of Central Patagonia, and the evolution of the theropod tarsus". Ameghiniana 54 (5): 539–566.