Xinjiangovenator
Field photograph to come
Xinjiangovenator
DV-0593
- Lived
- 137 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Rauhut and Xu 2005
Field notes
About Xinjiangovenator
Xinjiangovenator was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 137 to 101 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Xinjiangovenator, from China. Its fossils come from the Lianmuqin Formation. It was named by Rauhut and Xu in 2005.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
120 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Coelurosauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: O. W. M. Rauhut and X. Xu. 2005. The small theropod dinosaurs Tugulusaurus and Phaedrolosaurus from the Early Cretaceous of Xinjiang, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(1):107-118