Afrovenator afrohvih-NAYTER
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Afrovenator 7.6 m (24.9 ft) long
5 people holding hands
- Length
- 7.6 m (24.9 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (167–157 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Africa · Gondwana · Niger
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Megalosauridae
Afrovenator (; “African hunter”) is an extinct genus of megalosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Middle or Late Jurassic Tiourarén Formation and maybe the Irhazer II Formation of the Sahara region of Niger in western Africa. Afrovenator represents the only named definitive Gondwanan megalosaur, with proposed material of the group present in the Tacuarembó Formation of Uruguay and the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, both dated to the Late Jurassic.
What we know
- Named by Sereno et al. 1994.
- Body length estimated at about 7.6 m.
- Fossils found in South America and Africa.