Fukuivenator

DV-0950 · type species Fukuivenator paradoxus

Lived: 121 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Carnivore
Group: Theropods
Found in: Japan
Named by: Azuma et al. 2016

Field notes

About Fukuivenator

Fukuivenator was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 121 to 113 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Fukuivenator, from Japan. Its fossils come from the Kitadani Formation. It was named by Azuma et al. in 2016.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

115 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Therizinosauria.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: Y. Azuma, X. Xu, and M. Shibata, S. Kawabe, K. Miyata, T. Imai. 2016. A bizarre theropod from the Early Cretaceous of Japan highlighting mosaic evolution among coelurosaurians. Scientific Reports 6:20478