Asfaltovenator

Asfaltovenator (meaning "Cañadón Asfalto Formation hunter" after the fossil formation in which its fossils were found) is a genus of possibly allosauroid dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic (Middle Toarcian) Cañadón Asfalto Formation of Chubut Province, Argentina. The type and only species is Asfaltovenator vialidadi.

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It sits within the topics Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Carnosauria and Dinosaur genera.

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Wikidata facts

Parent taxon: Allosauroidea
Image: Asfaltovenatorskull.png

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taxon rank: genus
taxon name: Asfaltovenator
start time: 174100000-
end time: 168300000-
Commons category: Asfaltovenator

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Discovery
Description
Classification
Paleoecology
References

== Discovery == thumb|left|Skull of Asfaltovenator In 2002, technician Leandro Canesa discovered a theropod skeleton roughly a mile north of Cerro Condor. Excavations started in 2005, and the fossil was removed in its entirety in 2007. It was then prepared by Mariano Caffa, a process that took five years due to the extreme hardness of the stone matrix. Between 2013 and 2015, it was compared with the specimens of related theropods.

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