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sharp-clawed runner
Fukuivenator
Say it like this: “foo-KOO-ee-VEN-uh-tuh”
Fukuivenator paradoxus
Fukuivenator ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Japan.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Aptian) · roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2016 · Azuma, Y.; Xu, X.; Shibata, M.; Kawabe, S.; Miyata, K.; Imai, T.
- Hip height
- 0.5 m · 2 ft
- Length
- 2.5 m · 8 ft
- Weight
- 25 kg · 55 lb
- Found in
- Japan · Kitadani
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Maniraptora
The story in short
The genus Fukuivenator dates to 2016, the year Y. Azuma and colleagues described it.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Aptian), roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago. Finds come from Japan, including the Kitadani Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Fukuivenator at a length near 2.5 m, hips about 0.5 m high, and a body mass around 25 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Maniraptora, among the theropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Archaeornithoides
Archaeornithoides deinosauriscus
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Bradycneme
Bradycneme draculae
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
Elopteryx
Elopteryx nopcsai
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago