Fukuivenator paradoxus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Fukuivenator 2.5 m (8 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 2.5 m (8 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125–115 Mya)
- Place
- Japan
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Fukuivenator (“hunter of Fukui Prefecture”) is an extinct genus of maniraptoran theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kitadani Formation of Japan.
What we know
- Named by Azuma et al., 2016.
- Body length estimated at about 2.45 m.
- Fossils found in Japan.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Fukuivenator — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.