Vectaerovenator

Field photograph to come

DV-1124Ferruginous Sands Fm., United Kingdom

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

1 find

115 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: 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