Pandoravenator

Pandoravenator (meaning "Pandora hunter", after the type locality, "Caja de Pandora", i.e. Pandora's box) is a genus of basal tetanuran theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian to Tithonian) of central Patagonia (Chubut Province). Fossils (in the form of a fragmentally preserved postcranial skeleton) of this dinosaur were discovered in the sediments of the Cañadón Calcáreo Formation and were scientifically described in 2017 by paleontologists Oliver Rauhut and Diego Pol. The type and only known species is Pandoravenator fernandezorum.[1]

Pandoravenator
Temporal range: Oxfordian-Tithonian,
~160–150 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Tetanurae
Genus: †Pandoravenator
Rauhut & Pol, 2017
Type species
†Pandoravenator fernandezorum
Rauhut & Pol, 2017

See also

References
  1. Rauhut, Oliver; Pol, Diego (14 November 2017). "A theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Cañadón Calcáreo Formation of Central Patagonia, and the evolution of the theropod tarsus". Ameghiniana. 54 (5): 539–566 – via www.ameghiniana.org.ar.


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