Outline: a typical theropod
Australovenator
"southern hunter"
Type species Australovenator wintonensis
- Lived
- 126 to 90 million years ago, Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Megaraptoridae
- Found in
- Australia
- Named by
- Hocknull et al. 2009
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
110 million years ago
Field notes
About Australovenator
What it was like
Australovenator was a megaraptor, a slender, fast meat eater with three large, curved claws on each hand. It is known from a partial skeleton with much of the arms and legs, one of the most complete meat-eating dinosaurs found in Australia.
Its long legs suggest it was a quick runner, and its big hand claws were probably its main weapons.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Australia. Its bones come from the Winton Formation, where it shared the land with the titanosaurs Diamantinasaurus, Wintonotitan and Savannasaurus.
How it was found
Hocknull and colleagues named Australovenator in 2009. Its bones were found at the same site as Diamantinasaurus.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Megaraptoridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. A. Hocknull, M. A. White, and T. R. Tischler, A. G. Cook, N. D. Calleja, T. Sloan, D. A. Elliot. 2009. New mid-Cretaceous (latest Albian) dinosaurs from Winton, Queensland, Australia. PLoS ONE 4(7):e6190: 1-51