Viavenator Viavenator
"road hunter"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Viavenator 5.6 m (18.4 ft) long
4 people holding hands
- Length
- 5.6 m (18.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (86–83 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Abelisauridae
Viavenator (meaning “road hunter”) is a genus of carnivorous abelisaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in the Santonian-aged (Late Cretaceous) Bajo de la Carpa Formation of Argentina. Only a single species is known, V. exxoni, formally described in 2016 by Filippi and colleagues.
What we know
- Named by Filippi et al., 2016.
- Body length estimated at about 5.6 m.
- Fossils found in Argentina.