Outline: a typical theropod
Juravenator
JOO-ra-ven-AY-tor
"Jura hunter"
- Lived
- 152 to 149 million years ago, Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- about 0.8 m (3 ft)
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- Germany
- Named by
- Göhlich and Chiappe 2006
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical theropod shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
150 million years ago
Field notes
About Juravenator
What it was like
Juravenator was a small predator known from one nearly complete skeleton of a young animal, about 0.8 meters (3 feet) long. It had a long tail, big eyes and sharp teeth. Patches of scaly skin are preserved on its tail, along with signs of fine filaments.
Its world
It lived about 152 to 149 million years ago, in the Late Jurassic, in what is now Germany. Much of the region was then a chain of islands in a warm, shallow sea. The small hunter Compsognathus lived in the same region.
How it was found
Göhlich and Chiappe named Juravenator in 2006. Its skeleton is one of the best preserved small theropods from Europe.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Coelurosauria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: U. B. Göhlich and L. M. Chiappe. 2006. A new carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen archipelago. Nature 440:329-332