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Afrovenator

Afrovenator

Pronunciation:: aff-ROW-ven-ah-tor
Name meaning:: 'African hunter'

Afrovenator

large theropod silhouette

Type of dinosaur:: large theropod
Length:: 9.0m

Diet:: carnivorous
When it lived:: Early Cretaceous, 132-121 million years ago
Found in:: Niger

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Megalosauridae, Eustreptospondylinae
Named by:: Sereno, Wilson, Larsson, Dutheil and Sues (1944)
Type species:: abakensis

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