Pandoravenator

Field photograph to come

DV-0992Cañadón Calcáreo Fm., Argentina

Pandoravenator

DV-0992 · type species Pandoravenator fernandezorum

Lived
158 to 149 million years ago, Late Jurassic
Diet
Carnivore
Group
Theropods
Found in
Argentina
Named by
Rauhut and Pol 2017

Field notes

About Pandoravenator

Pandoravenator was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Jurassic, 158 to 149 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Pandoravenator, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Cañadón Calcáreo Formation. It was named by Rauhut and Pol in 2017.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

155 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Tetanurae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: O. W. M. Rauhut and D. Pol. 2017. A theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Cañadón Calcáreo Formation of central Patagonia, and the evolution of the theropod tarsus. Ameghiniana 54:506-538