Viavenator
Field photograph to come
Viavenator
DV-0968
- Lived
- 86 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Abelisauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Filippi et al. 2016
Field notes
About Viavenator
Viavenator was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 84 million years ago. It belongs to the family Abelisauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Viavenator, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation. It was named by Filippi et al. in 2016.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Abelisauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: L. S. Filippi, A. H. Méndez, and R. D. Juárez Valieri, A. C. Garrido. 2016. A new brachyrostran with hypertrophied axial structures reveals an unexpected radiation of latest Cretaceous abelisaurids. Cretaceous Research 60:209-219