Asfaltovenator
Field photograph to come
Asfaltovenator
DV-1046
- Lived
- 180 to 169 million years ago, Early Jurassic to Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Rauhut and Pol 2019
Field notes
About Asfaltovenator
Asfaltovenator was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Jurassic to Middle Jurassic, 180 to 169 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Asfaltovenator, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Cañadón Asfalto Formation. It was named by Rauhut and Pol in 2019.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
175 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Allosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: O. W. M. Rauhut and D. Pol. 2019. Probable basal allosauroid from the early Middle Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation of Argentina highlights phylogenetic uncertainty in tetanuran theropod dinosaurs. Scientific Reports 9:18826:1-7