Dinosaur
Afrovenator
Its remains come from the same formation as the sauropod Jobaria.
Afrovenator provides information about the large carnivorous dinosaurs of the ancient lands of Gondwana.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Afrovenator at a glance
- Diet
- Carnivore
- It is interpreted as a consumer of other animals. Hunting and scavenging are not mutually exclusive behaviors.
- When it lived
- Jurassic
- Group
- Megalosauridae
- Megalosaurids
- Fossil locations
- Niger
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Afrovenator
It is part of the megalosaurids, a lineage of carnivorous theropods. Its record in the Tiourarén Formation is important to know the presence of the group in the southern lands of Gondwana.
Its remains come from the same formation as the sauropod Jobaria. Sharing a formation with Jobaria places both within a geological context. That association helps study the ancient landscape, although it does not by itself describe an interaction between the two.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Afrovenator abakensis
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- Afrovenator
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- Megalosauridae
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- Living birds
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