| Afrovenator Temporal range: Middle-Late Jurassic
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| Reconstructed skeleton, Japan | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Megalosauridae |
| Genus: | †Afrovenator Sereno et al. 1994 |
| Species: | †A. abakensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Afrovenator abakensis Sereno et al. 1994
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Afrovenator (/ˌæfroʊvɪˈneɪtər/; "African hunter") is a genus of megalosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Middle or Late Jurassic Period on the Tiourarén Formation and maybe the Irhazer II Formation of the Niger Sahara region in northern Africa. Afrovenator represents the only properly identified Gondwanan megalosaur, with proposed material of the group present in the Late Jurassic on Tacuarembó Formation of Uruguay and the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania.[1]
- ^ Soto, Matías; Toriño, Pablo; Perea, Daniel (2020-03-01). "A large sized megalosaurid (Theropoda, Tetanurae) from the late Jurassic of Uruguay and Tanzania". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 98: 102458. Bibcode:2020JSAES..9802458S. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102458. ISSN 0895-9811. S2CID 213672502.