Lajasvenator
Lajasvenator (meaning "Las Lajas hunter" after the city of Las Lajas in Neuquén, Argentina) is a genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur from the Mulichinco Formation from Neuquén Province in Argentina. The type and only species is Lajasvenator ascheriae. It was probably one of the smallest known allosauroids, being approximately only half the length of Concavenator.[1]
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| Reconstruction of the animal based on its fossil remains and those of its close relatives | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Carcharodontosauridae |
| Genus: | †Lajasvenator Coria et al., 2019 |
| Type species | |
| †Lajasvenator ascheriae Coria et al., 2019 | |
References
- Coria, R.A., Currie, P.J., Ortega, F., & Baiano, M.A. (2019). An Early Cretaceous, medium-sized carcharodontosaurid theropod (Dinosauria, Saurischia) from the Mulichinco Formation (upper Valanginian), Neuquén Province, Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research (in press). doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104319.
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