Fosterovenator
Field photograph to come
Fosterovenator
DV-0888 · type species Fosterovenator churei
- Lived
- 155 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Ceratosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Dalman 2014
Field notes
About Fosterovenator
Fosterovenator was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 155 to 143 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ceratosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Fosterovenator, from Wyoming. Its fossils come from the Morrison Formation. It was named by Dalman in 2014.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
150 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. G. Dalman. 2014. New data on small theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Como Bluff, Wyoming, USA. Volumina Jurassica 12(2):181-196