Asfaltovenator

Field photograph to come

DV-1046Cañadón Asfalto Fm., Argentina

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

1 find

175 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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