Lajasvenator
Name:
Lajasvenator
(Las Lajas hunter).
Phonetic: La-jas-ven-ah-tor.
Named By: R. A. Coria, P. J. Currie, F.
Ortega & M. A. Baiano - 2019.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Carcharodontosauridae.
Species: L. ascheriae
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Holotype individual roughly about 3.5
meters long.
Known locations: Argentina - Mulichinco
Formation.
Time period: Valanginian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull, dentary
(lower jaw) and post cranial skeleton.
Lajasvenator
is a genus of carcharodontosaurid
dinosaur that lived in South America
during the Early cretaceous. Carcharodontosaurid dinosaurs have a
reputation for being some of the largest predatory dinosaurs, but
Lajasvenator is at the opposite end of the scale,
and represents
perhaps one of the smallest carcharodontsaurid known.
Further reading
- An Early Cretaceous,
medium-sized carcharodontosaurid theropod (Dinosauria,
Saurischia) from the Mulichinco Formation (upper Valanginian),
Neuqu�n Province, Patagonia, Argentina. - Cretaceous Research
- R. A. Coria, P. J. Currie, F. Ortega & M.
A. Baiano - 2019.
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