Asfaltovenator
Asfaltovenator was a big meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina. It was about as long as a school bus and had a skull full of sharp teeth. Scientists think it might be one of the oldest relatives of Allosaurus.21
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Asfaltovenator lived about 179 to 178 million years ago, during the Middle Jurassic period.1
The only known fossil of Asfaltovenator is a nearly complete skull and much of the skeleton, including neck and back bones, shoulders, and forelimbs.1
Asfaltovenator had a mix of features seen in different groups of meat-eating dinosaurs, which makes it hard for scientists to place it exactly on the family tree.2
Its name honors the road workers who helped paleontologists dig up the fossil.1
Asfaltovenator had 4 teeth in the front of its upper jaw and 13 teeth in each upper cheek bone.2
Most asked questions about Asfaltovenator
?How big was Asfaltovenator?
About 7 to 8 metres (23 to 26 feet) long, similar in size to Allosaurus.12
?When did Asfaltovenator live?
It lived about 179 to 178 million years ago, during the Middle Jurassic period.1
?What did Asfaltovenator eat?
It was a meat-eating theropod dinosaur that ate other animals, using its sharp teeth to catch prey.1
?Is Asfaltovenator a dinosaur?
Yes, it is a dinosaur, specifically a meat-eating theropod dinosaur.1
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- Scientific name
- Asfaltovenator
- Named by
- Rauhut and Pol 20193
- Group
- Meat-eating dinos
- Family / clade
- Allosauroidea3
- Classification
- Theropoda > Allosauroidea3
- Age of the rocks
- 180 to 169 million years (Toarcian / Bajocian)3
- Rock formations
- Ca帽ad贸n Asfalto3
- Countries
- Argentina3
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
- Discovery
- Asfaltovenator was named and described by scientists Oliver Rauhut and Diego Pol in 2019. The fossil was found near the village of Cerro C贸ndor in Argentina.12
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure whether Asfaltovenator belongs to the allosauroid group or another branch of the meat-eating dinosaur family tree.2
Where the facts come from
- Asfaltovenator (en.wikipedia.org)
- Probable basal allosauroid from the early Middle Jurassic Ca帽ad贸n Asfalto Formation of Argentina highlights phylogenetic uncertainty in tetanuran theropod dinosaurs | Scientific Reports (nature.com)
- Asfaltovenator in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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