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- taxon name
- Afrovenator abakensis
- Commons category
- Afrovenator
- taxon rank
- species
- start time
- 167000000-
- end time
- 161000000-
- short name
- A. abakensis
- time period
- Cretaceous
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Encyclopedic overview
Afrovenator (/ˌæfroʊvɪˈneɪtər/; "African hunter") is an extinct genus of megalosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Middle or Late Jurassic Tiourarén Formation and maybe the Irhazer II Formation of the Sahara region of Niger in western Africa. Afrovenator represents the only named definitive Gondwanan megalosaur, with proposed material of the group present in the Tacuarembó Formation of Uruguay and the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, both dated to the Late Jurassic.
Discovery and naming
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Afrovenator abakensis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.