Wiehenvenator
Field photograph to come
Wiehenvenator
DV-0969 · type species Wiehenvenator albati
- Lived
- 165 to 162 million years ago, Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Megalosauridae
- Found in
- Germany
- Named by
- Rauhut et al. 2016
Field notes
About Wiehenvenator
Wiehenvenator was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Middle Jurassic, 165 to 162 million years ago. It belongs to the family Megalosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Wiehenvenator, from Germany. Its fossils come from the Ornatenton Formation. It was named by Rauhut et al. in 2016.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
165 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Megalosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: O. W. M. Rauhut, T. R. Hübner, and K.-P. Lanser. 2016. A new megalosaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Middle Jurassic (Callovian) of north-western Germany: Implications for theropod evolution and faunal turnover in the Jurassic. Palaeontologia electronica 19(2):2A:1-65