Natovenator polydontus Natovenator
"to swim"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Natovenator 70 cm (2.3 ft) long
1 person — shorter than 70 cm (2.3 ft)
- Length
- 70 cm (2.3 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72–71 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Carnivore
Natovenator is a genus of halszkaraptorine dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia. The genus is known from a single species, N. polydontus. Natovenator is crucial to the understanding of halszkaraptorines due to it providing more support for the semi-aquatic lifestyle that has been proposed for this clade. This discovery is important as the semi-aquatic lifestyles of halszkaraptorines (mainly Halszkaraptor) was contested in early 2022.
What we know
- Named by Lee et al., 2022.
- Body length estimated at about 0.7 m.
- Fossils found in Mongolia.