Duriavenator
Name:
Duriavenator
(Dorset hunter).
Phonetic: Du-ree-ah-ven-ah-tor.
Named By: Roger Benson - 2008.
Synonyms: Megalosaurus hesperis.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Megalosauridae, Megalosaurinae.
Species: D. hesperis (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Skull estimated to be about 60 centimetres
long.
Known locations: England.
Time period: Bajocian of the Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Duriavenator was for a long time attributed to Megalosaurus, part of the 'wastebasket taxon' effect which saw Megalosaurus becoming a home for many fossils that actually represented similar yet different dinosaurs.
Further reading
- A redescription of "Megalosaurus" hesperis (Dinosauria, Theropoda)
from the Inferior Oolite (Bajocian, Middle Jurassic) of Dorset, United
Kingdom. - Zootaxa 1931: 57-67. - R. B. J. Benson - 2008.
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