Saltriovenator zanellai
"Saltrio hunter"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Saltriovenator 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Jurassic (199.3–197.5 Mya)
- Place
- Italy
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Saltriovenator (meaning “Saltrio hunter”) is a genus of ceratosaurian dinosaur that lived during the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic in what is now Italy. The type and only species is Saltriovenator zanellai; in the past, the species had been known under the informal name “saltriosaur”. Although a full skeleton has not yet been discovered, Saltriovenator is thought to have been a large, bipedal carnivore similar to Ceratosaurus.
What we know
- Named by Dal Sasso et al. 2018.
- Fossils found in Italy.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Saltriovenator — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.