Outline: a typical theropod
Ichthyovenator
ICK-thee-oh-veh-NAY-tor
"fish hunter"
- Lived
- 121 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Spinosauridae
- Found in
- Laos
- Named by
- Allain et al. 2012
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
115 million years ago
Field notes
About Ichthyovenator
What it was like
Ichthyovenator was a spinosaurid, a relative of Spinosaurus and Baryonyx. It had a sail on its back, and the sail dipped in the middle over the hips, making it look like two sails in a row.
Like its relatives it probably had a long, narrow snout and caught fish.
Its world
It lived about 121 to 113 million years ago, in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now Laos. Its fossils come from the Grès supérieurs Formation, where the long-necked Tangvayosaurus also lived.
How it was found
Allain and colleagues named Ichthyovenator in 2012, from one partial skeleton. More bones from the same animal were collected later.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Spinosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. Allain, T. Xaisanavong, and P. Richir, B. Khentavong. 2012. The first definitive Asian spinosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the early cretaceous of Laos. Naturwissenschaften 99:369-377