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sharp-clawed runner
Pandoravenator
Say it like this: “pan-DOH-ruh-VEN-uh-tuh”
Pandoravenator fernandezorum
Pandoravenator ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in Argentina.
- When
- Late Jurassic (Oxfordian · Kimmeridgian · Tithonian) · roughly 161.5 to 143.1 million years ago
- Named in
- 2017 · Rauhut, O. W. M.; Pol, D.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Argentina · Cañadón Calcáreo
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Tetanurae
The story in short
In 2017, O. W. M. Rauhut and D. Pol published the name Pandoravenator. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Pandoravenator date to the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian · Kimmeridgian · Tithonian), roughly 161.5 to 143.1 million years ago. Finds come from Argentina, including the Cañadón Calcáreo Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
The fossils of Pandoravenator are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Tetanurae, among the theropod dinosaurs.