Dracovenator
Field photograph to come
Dracovenator
DV-0571
- Lived
- 201 to 193 million years ago, Early Jurassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- South Africa
- Named by
- Yates 2005
Field notes
About Dracovenator
Dracovenator was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Jurassic, 201 to 193 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Dracovenator, from South Africa. Its fossils come from the Elliot Formation. It was named by Yates in 2005.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
195 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Neotheropoda.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. M. Yates. 2005. A new theropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of South Africa and its implications for the early evolution of theropods. Palaeontologia Africana 41:105-122