Duriavenator
Field photograph to come
Duriavenator
DV-0657
- Lived
- 169 to 168 million years ago, Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Megalosauridae
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Benson 2008
Field notes
About Duriavenator
Duriavenator was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Middle Jurassic, 169 to 168 million years ago. It belongs to the family Megalosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Duriavenator, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Upper Inferior Oolite Formation. It was named by Benson in 2008.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
170 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Megalosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. B. J. Benson. 2008. A redescription of 'Megalosaurus' hesperis (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Inferior Oolite (Bajocian, Middle Jurassic) of Dorset, United Kingdom. Zootaxa 1931:57-67