Ichthyovenator
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Ichthyovenator was a meat-eating theropod dinosaur. It was from the Early Cretaceous, about 113 to 125 million years ago. Its fossils were found in Laos in 2010.[1] Ichthyovenator was a spinosaurid, they were crocodile-like dinosaurs that ate fish.[2]
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Ichthyovenator | |
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Casts of the type vertebrae in side view | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Spinosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Spinosaurinae |
Genus: | †Ichthyovenator Allain et al., 2012 |
Type species | |
†Ichthyovenator laosensis Allain et al., 2012 |
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It is one of three spinosaurids found in Asia, the other two are Siamosaurus, and "Sinopliosaurus" fusuiensis.[1][3][4]