Teihivenator
Field photograph to come
Teihivenator
DV-0999 · type species Teihivenator macropus
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Yun 2017
Field notes
About Teihivenator
Teihivenator was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Teihivenator, from New Jersey. Its fossils come from the Navesink Formation. It was named by Yun in 2017.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Tyrannosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: C.-g. Yun. 2017. Teihivenator gen. nov., a new generic name for the tyrannosauroid dinosaur "Laelaps" macropus (Cope, 1868; preoccupied by Koch, 1836). Journal of Zoological and Bioscience Research 4(2):7-13