Teihivenator

What it was like

Teihivenator was a meat eater known from a few scattered bones, including parts of the legs, feet and backbone. It was probably a relative of the tyrannosaurs, and it may have been close to Dryptosaurus, which lived in the same region.

Because the bones are so few, some scientists doubt it is a separate genus.

Its world

It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous, in what is now New Jersey, in the United States. Its bones come from the Navesink Formation, rocks laid down in a shallow sea, which also produced Hadrosaurus.

How it was found

The bones were first described in the nineteenth century under another name. Yun gave them the new name Teihivenator in 2017.