Outline: a typical theropod
Erythrovenator
"red hunter"
- Lived
- 237 to 227 million years ago, Late Triassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- Brazil
- Named by
- Müller 2020
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
230 million years ago
Field notes
About Erythrovenator
What it was like
Erythrovenator was an early two-legged predator known only from a thigh bone. It is one of the oldest theropods known.
Its world
It lived in the Late Triassic in what is now Brazil. Its bone comes from the Candelária Formation, a red rock layer that also holds other early dinosaurs.
How it was found
Müller named it in 2020 from one find.
Close relatives
Other members of Theropoda
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. T. Müller. 2020. A new theropod dinosaur from a peculiar Late Triassic assemblage of southern Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences