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sharp-clawed runner
Genyodectes
Say it like this: “JEN-ee-o-DEK-teez”
Genyodectes serus
Genyodectes ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Argentina.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Aptian · Albian) · roughly 121.4 to 100.5 million years ago
- Named in
- 1901 · Woodward, A. S.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 6.3 m · 21 ft
- Weight
- 790 kg · 1,742 lb
- Found in
- Argentina · Cerro Barcino
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Ceratosauridae
The story in short
The genus Genyodectes dates to 1901, the year A. S. Woodward described it.
Fossils referred to Genyodectes date to the Early Cretaceous (Aptian · Albian), roughly 121.4 to 100.5 million years ago. Finds come from Argentina, including the Cerro Barcino Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Genyodectes at a length near 6.3 m and a body mass around 790 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Ceratosauridae, among the theropod dinosaurs.