Lusovenator santosi
"Portuguese hunter"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lusovenator 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (154–144.7 Mya)
- Place
- Europe · Asia · Portugal
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Lusovenator (meaning “Portuguese hunter”) is a genus of carcharodontosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Praia de Amoreira Porto-Novo Member and the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (Tithonian-Berriasian) Assenta Member of the Lourinhã Formation in present-day Portugal. It includes one species, Lusovenator santosi.
What we know
- Named by Malafaia et al., 2020.
- Fossils found in Europe and Asia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Lusovenator — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.