Vectaerovenator
Field photograph to come
Vectaerovenator
DV-1124
- Lived
- 120 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Barker et al. 2020
Field notes
About Vectaerovenator
Vectaerovenator was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 120 to 113 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Vectaerovenator, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Ferruginous Sands Formation. It was named by Barker et al. in 2020.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
115 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Tetanurae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: C. T. Barker, D. Naish, and C. E. Clarkin, P. Farrell, G. Hullmann, J. Lockyer, P. Schneider, R. K. C. Ward, NJ Gostling. 2020. A highly pneumatic middle Cretaceous theropod from the British Lower Greensand. Papers in Palaeontology