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Dinosaur/Paleontology Dictionary |
| NAME: | Meaning - Afrovenator means "African hunter" Pronounced - AF-ro-vee-NAY-tor Named By - Paul Sereno, J. A. Wilson, Larsson, Dutheil and H. D. Sues, 1994 When Named - 1994 |
| DIET: | Carnivore (meat-eater) |
| SIZE: | Length - 27-30 ft (8-9 m) long Height - 7.5 ft (2.3 m) tall at the hips Weight - ? |
| WHEN IT LIVED: | Early Cretaceous period, about 130 million years ago. |
| WHERE IT LIVED: | Fossils have been found in Abaka, Niger, Africa, in the southern Sahara desert. |
| FOSSILS: | A nearly complete Afrovenator was found in 1993. It is the most complete Cretaceous period carnivore found in Africa so far. |
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| INTERESTING FACTS: |
Afrovenator was a bipedal, meat-eating, three-fingered, stiff-tailed predator that had 2-inch-long bladelike teeth. It was related to Allosaurus. |
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