Saltriovenator

Saltriovenator
Temporal range: Early Sinemurian
~199.3–197.5 Ma
Selected elements of the holotype
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Binomial name
Saltriovenator zanellai
Dal Sasso et al. 2018

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.