In Depth Spectrovenator is a genus of abelisaurid dinosaur that lived in South America during the early Cretaceous period. Spectrovenator is considered to be intermediate between the most primitive abelisaurid dinosaurs of the late Jurassic and the more advanced members of the abelisauridae of the late Cretaceous. Analysis of the skull reveals that Spectrovenator probably … Read more
In Depth Fosterovenator was a ceratosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the late Cretaceous. At the time of writing the only parts that are known for Fosterovenator are lower leg bones, but in the original description of this genus, the fossils were noted as being superficially similar to those of the genus … Read more
In Depth Described from very partial remains, Vitakridrinda is a difficult dinosaur to talk about other than it seems to have been an abelisaurid. Abelisaurs were the dominant type of theropods in the southern continents during the late Cretaceous while the tyrannosaurs dominated the North. Because of the abundance of late Cretaceous rocks in Asia, … Read more