Lucianovenator

Lucianovenator is one of the few meat-eating dinosaurs known from South America during the Triassic period.1

Its neck bones had special pits and ridges that are unique to this dinosaur, helping scientists tell it apart from others.1

The front ribs in its neck were very long, more than five times as long as the neck bones themselves.1

Lucianovenator lived about 210 to 202 million years ago, during the late Norian and Rhaetian ages.1

Its fossils include a connected series of neck and back bones, plus a hip bone, found in Argentina.1

Scientists think the rarity of meat-eating dinosaurs from this time might be because of how fossils were preserved, not because they were actually rare.12