Identity card : Afrovenator

IDENTITY CARD
Name	Afrovenator
Length	8 m
Weight	800 kg
Age	Cretaceous
Distribution	Africa
Diet	Carnivorous

General information

Afrovenator which means "African hunter" was named by the palaeotologists Paul C. Sereno, J. A. Wilson, A. Larsson, Didier B. Dutheil and Hans-Dieter Sues in 1994.
Afrovenator was a carnivorous dinosaur living in Africa during the Cretaceous period. At that time, the Sahara where it had been found was not a desert but a place with forests and rivers. Its jaw had blade-like teeth and it had three fingers.

Pictures

	Picture JS39 © J. Sibbick