Lucianovenator
Field photograph to come
Lucianovenator
DV-0987
- Lived
- 227 to 206 million years ago, Late Triassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Coelophysidae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Martinez and Apaldetti 2017
Field notes
About Lucianovenator
Lucianovenator was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Triassic, 227 to 206 million years ago. It belongs to the family Coelophysidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Lucianovenator, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Quebrada del Barro Formation. It was named by Martinez and Apaldetti in 2017.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
220 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Coelophysidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. N. Martinez and C. Apaldetti. 2017. A late Norian–Rhaetian coelophysid neotheropod (Dinosauria, Saurischia) from the Quebrada del Barro Formation, northwestern Argentina. Ameghiniana 54(5):448-505