Powellvenator

Field photograph to come

DV-0994Los Colorados Fm., Argentina

Powellvenator

DV-0994

Lived
227 to 206 million years ago, Late Triassic
Diet
Carnivore
Group
Theropods, Coelophysidae
Found in
Argentina
Named by
Ezcurra 2017

Field notes

About Powellvenator

Powellvenator 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 Powellvenator, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Los Colorados Formation. It was named by Ezcurra in 2017.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

220 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Coelophysidae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: M. D. Ezcurra. 2017. A new early coelophysoid neotheropod from the Late Triassic of northwestern Argentina. Ameghiniana 54(5):506-538