Saltriovenator Temporal range: Early Sinemurian
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Selected elements of the holotype | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | †Ceratosauria |
Genus: | †Saltriovenator Dal Sasso et al. 2018 |
Species: | †S. zanellai
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Binomial name | |
†Saltriovenator zanellai Dal Sasso et al. 2018
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Saltriovenator (meaning "Saltrio hunter") is a genus of ceratosaurian dinosaur that lived during the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic in what is now Italy. The type and only species is Saltriovenator zanellai; in the past, the species had been known under the informal name "saltriosaur". Although a full skeleton has not yet been discovered, Saltriovenator is thought to have been a large, bipedal carnivore similar to Ceratosaurus.