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Asfaltovenator

Asfaltovenator combined a large predatory skull with substantial forelimbs.

Asfaltovenator combined a large predatory skull with substantial forelimbs. Its skeleton preserves a mixture of features that make the early history of allosauroid-like predators difficult to draw as a simple family tree.

Asfaltovenator at a glance

Diet
Carnivore
Its feeding structures are interpreted as adapted to taking animal prey.
When it lived
Middle Jurassic
Group
Allosauroidea
Allosauroidea

Beyond the game

The real Asfaltovenator

Asfaltovenator combined a large predatory skull with substantial forelimbs. Its skeleton preserves a mixture of features that make the early history of allosauroid-like predators difficult to draw as a simple family tree.

Its skeleton combines characters associated with different early tetanuran branches. Those combinations are part of the evidence behind continuing debate about the relationships of these predatory dinosaurs.

Fossil discoveries

Chubut, Argentina · approximate location
Chubut, Argentina

Selected fossil records · present-day map

Map references

Paleobiology Database · O. W. M. Rauhut and D. Pol. 2019. Probable basal allosauroid from the early Middle Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation of Argentina highlights phylogenetic uncertainty in tetanuran theropod dinosaurs. Scientific Reports 9:18826:1-7 ↗

Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.

Sources & text credits

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  1. Probable basal allosauroid from the early Middle Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation of Argentina highlights phylogenetic uncertainty in tetanuran theropod dinosaurs

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