Microvenator celer Microvenator
"small hunter"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Microvenator 1.3 m (4.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1.3 m (4.3 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (110 Mya)
- Place
- India · Montana, USA
- Food
- Omnivore
- Clade
- Caenagnathidae
Microvenator (meaning “small hunter”) is a genus of oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Cloverly Formation in what is now south central Montana. The holotype fossil is an incomplete skeleton, most likely a juvenile with a length of 1.3 m, and consequently, the adult size remains uncertain. Microvenator is primitive and may be the “sister taxon to all other oviraptorosaurs.”
What we know
- Named by Ostrom, 1970.
- Body length estimated at about 1.3 m.
- Fossils found in India and Montana, USA.