Philovenator Philovenator
"love hunter"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Philovenator 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (75 Mya)
- Place
- China · Mongolia
- Food
- Carnivore
Philovenator (literally meaning “love hunter”) is an extinct genus of troodontid paravian dinosaurs from the Wulansuhai Formation (dated to the Campanian age, sometime between 75 and 71 million years ago) of Inner Mongolia, China. Its specific name honors Phillip J. Currie.
What we know
- Named by Xu et al., 2012.
- Fossils found in China and Mongolia.