In Depth
Lusovenator is a genus of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in Europe during the late Jurassic. The known fossils of Lusovenator suggest a size of a little of three meters, though they also indicate that these fossils belonged to a juvenile and was therefore not fully grown. The full grown size of Lusovenator is not known, but some carcharodontosaurids, especially those that lived later in the Cretaceous era, are amongst the largest theropod dinosaurs known.
Further reading
- A new carcharodontosaurian theropod from the Lusitanian Basin: evidence of allosauroid sympatry in the European Late Jurassic. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. - Elisabete Malafaia, Pedro Mocho, Fernando Escaso & Francisco Ortega - 2020.
