Outline: a typical theropod
Albertavenator
"Alberta hunter"
Type species Albertavenator curriei
- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Troodontidae
- Found in
- Canada
- Named by
- Evans et al. 2017
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
75 million years ago
Field notes
About Albertavenator
What it was like
Albertavenator was a troodontid, a lightly built, feathered theropod with large eyes. It is known from part of a skull. It looks a lot like Troodon, but its skull bones differ in shape.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Alberta, Canada. It comes from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, where it shared the land with the tyrannosaur Albertosaurus, the duckbills Edmontosaurus and Saurolophus and the ostrich-like Ornithomimus.
How it was found
Evans and colleagues named Albertavenator in 2017. The type species is Albertavenator curriei.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Troodontidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: D. C. Evans, T. M. Cullen, and D. W. Larson, A. Rego. 2017. A new species of troodontid theropod (Dinosauria: Maniraptora) from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Maastrichtian) of Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 54(8):813-826