In Depth As a coelophysid, Lucianovenator was a small predatory dinosaur similar in form to other genera such as Camposaurus and Coelophysis. Lucianovenator would have been a predator of small creatures such as lizards and possibly scavenging carrion when available. Lucianovenator shared the same habitat with the dinosaurs Ingentia and Leyesaurus, while other creatures such … Read more
In Depth Procompsognathus has often been recreated in popular science work about dinosaurs where it is usually depicted as a very small bipedal theropod dinosaur. However since the initial description of the holotype fossils, further specimens have been referred to the genus, though these are controversial fossils that are widely seen as not belonging to … Read more
In Depth Although weathered and not entirely complete, the holotype of Linhevenator is still one of the most complete Late Cretaceous troodontid individuals so far known. Linhevenator is towards the larger end of the known troodontid size range, but its main unique features are its small arms, each with a very robust humerus. This may … Read more
In Depth Drinker might sound like an odd name for a dinosaur, but this dinosaur is named after Edward Drinker Cope, a man who in the late nineteenth century who made many of the most important discoveries in American paleontological history during that time. Most of this is derived from Cope’s involvement in the ‘Bone … Read more
In Depth Maip is a genus of megaraptorid dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous, and going by the size of the fossil bones, potentially one of the largest megaraptorid dinosaurs so far discovered. The describing authors of Maip also considered the presence of potential attachment points of ligaments upon the ribs. … Read more
In Depth Bicentenaria is an interesting theropod whose remains were recovered from the Ezequiel Ramos Mexia Reservoir, Rio Negro Province, Argentina by Raul Spedale in 1998. The remains were of a concentration of disarticulated remains of many individuals, but their similarity to one another strongly suggests that they were all from the same genus of … Read more
In Depth Guaibasaurus is known from fairly good remains, though the skull is unknown. When first described, Guaibasaurus was considered to be a potential theropod dinosaur, though later a similarity with the primitive sauropodomorph dinosaur Saturnalia was noted, and now Guaibasaurus is usually seen as a very primitive sauropodomorph dinosaur. Further Reading - A new … Read more
In Depth Heterodontosaurus is one of more popular ornithischian genera thanks to the mixture of teeth in the mouth. Heterodontosaurus had blade-like incisor teeth and chisel-like molar teeth within the mouth for processing food by slicing and grinding respectively. The show stealing features of the mouth however are the large tusks in the anterior (front) … Read more
In Depth Vectaerovenator is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived during the early cretaceous. Because the only fossil known for Vectaerovenator at the time of its description only consist of a few vertebrae, there is much we do not know about this dinosaur, including what kind of theropod dinosaur it was. Since the naming … Read more
In Depth Tianzhenosaurus is a genus of relatively small ankylosaurid dinosaur that lived in China during the late Cretaceous, though a specific point of time during the late Cretaceous is unavailable at the time of writing. There has however been speculation that Tianzhenosaurus may actually be synonymous with the genus Saichania. Further Reading - A … Read more