| Neovenator | |
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| Reconstructed skeleton in Japan | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Allosauria |
| Clade: | †Carcharodontosauria |
| Family: | †Neovenatoridae |
| Genus: | †Neovenator Hutt, Martill & Barker, 1996 |
| Species: | †N. salerii
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| Binomial name | |
| †Neovenator salerii Hutt, Martill & Barker, 1996
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Neovenator (nee-o-ven-a-tor meaning "new hunter") is a genus of carcharodontosaurian theropod dinosaur. It is known from several skeletons found in the Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian-Barremian) Wessex Formation on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, southern England. It is one of the best known theropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of Europe.