Lusovenator
Field photograph to come
Lusovenator
DV-1108 · type species Lusovenator santosi
- Lived
- 152 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- Portugal
- Named by
- Malafaia et al. 2020
Field notes
About Lusovenator
Lusovenator was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 152 to 143 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Lusovenator, from Portugal. Its fossils come from rocks including the Freixial Formation and the Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo Formation. It was named by Malafaia et al. in 2020.
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 Carcharodontosauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: E. Malafaia, P. Mocho, and F. Escaso, F. Ortega. 2020. A new carcharodontosaurian theropod from the Lusitanian Basin: evidence of allosauroid sympatry in the European Late Jurassic. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(1):e1768106:1-8