Outline: a typical theropod
Genyodectes
"jaw biter"
- Lived
- 113 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Woodward 1901
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
105 million years ago
Field notes
About Genyodectes
What it was like
Genyodectes was a meat-eating dinosaur known from a snout and parts of the jaws, full of long, blade-like teeth. It seems to be a ceratosaur, perhaps close to Ceratosaurus.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Cerro Barcino Formation, where the giant titanosaur Patagotitan and the predator Tyrannotitan also lived.
How it was found
Woodward named Genyodectes in 1901 from one poorly preserved find. It was one of the first dinosaurs named from Argentina.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratosauria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: A. S. Woodward. 1901. On some extinct reptiles from Patagonia, of the genera Miolania, Dinilysia, and Genyodectes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901(1):169-184