Juravenator

Field photograph to come

DV-0604Painten Fm., Germany

Juravenator

DV-0604

Lived
152 to 149 million years ago, Late Jurassic
Diet
Carnivore
Length
about 0.8 m (3 ft)
Group
Theropods
Found in
Germany
Named by
Göhlich and Chiappe 2006

Field notes

About Juravenator

Juravenator was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Jurassic, 152 to 149 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Juravenator, from Germany. Its fossils come from the Painten Formation. It was named by Göhlich and Chiappe in 2006.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

150 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

To scale

How big was Juravenator?

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Juravenator: about 0.8 m (3 ft) · Person: 1.8 m (6 ft)Silhouette: typical theropod shape

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Coelurosauria.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: U. B. Göhlich and L. M. Chiappe. 2006. A new carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen archipelago. Nature 440:329-332