Lusovenator

Malafaia et al. 2020

Lusovenator is a genus of carcharodontosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Praia de Amoreira Porto-Novo Member and the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (Tithonian-Berriasian) Assenta Member of the Lourinhã Formation in present-day Portugal. It includes one species, Lusovenator santosi.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial

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Figure 3 Sequence of caudal vertebrae of SHN.019. (1) Reconstitution of the skeleton of a Neovenator individual (copyright of the skeleton of Neovenator Scott Hartman, 2013) in which the estimated position of the tail section collected in Cambelas is marked; (2–4) sequence of seventeen partially articulated caudal vertebrae of SHN.019. Scale bar=1 m (1) or 100 mm (2). © Elisabete Malafaia, Pedro Mocho, Fernando Escaso, Pedro Dantas and Francisco Ortega · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Unranked clade

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Theropoda Unranked clade

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Neotheropoda Unranked clade

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Averostra Unranked clade

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Tetanurae Unranked clade

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Allosauroidea Superfamily

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Carcharodontosauria Unranked clade

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Lusovenator Genus

Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇵🇹 Portugal

Geological formations

Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo

Freixial

Temporal distribution

Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)

Kimmeridgian (154.8–149.2 Ma)

Species (1)

Lusovenator santosi 152 Ma

Images 1

Bibliography

Original description

E. Malafaia, P. Mocho, and F. Escaso, F. Ortega. 2020. A new carcharodontosaurian theropod from the Lusitanian Basin: evidence of allosauroid sympatry in the European Late Jurassic. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(1):e1768106:1-8 DOI ↗

Bibliography (1)