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Neovenatoridae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	160848	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=160848

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Avetheropoda : Neovenatoridae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Theropoda
-	Neotheropoda	Bakker 1986
-	Averostra	Paul 2002
-	Tetanurae	Gauthier 1986
order	Avetheropoda	Paul 1988
-	Carnosauria
superfamily	Allosauroidea	Currie and Zhao 1994
family	Neovenatoridae	Benson et al. 2010

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Neovenatoridae	family	belongs to Carcharodontosauria	stated with evidence	Benson et al., 2010
Neovenatoridae	family	belongs to Allosauroidea	stated with evidence	Hendrickx and Mateus, 2014
Neovenatoridae	family	belongs to Carcharodontosauria	stated without evidence	Csiki-Sava et al., 2016

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

136 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Theropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Carnosauria)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. B. J. Benson, M. T. Carrano, and S. L. Brusatte. 2010. A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic. Naturwissenschaften 97:71-78

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Australovenator ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Chilantaisaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Fukuiraptor ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	136 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Neovenator ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	133 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Megaraptora ✝ unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	19	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1932	Rapator Huene p. 70 figs. Pl. 3:13
1964	Rapator Tatarinov p. 533
1988	Rapator Carroll
1988	Rapator Paul p. 306
1992	Rapator Molnar p. 261
2004	Rapator Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 74
2010	Neovenatoridae Benson et al. p. 75
2012	Neovenatoridae Carrano et al. p. 248 fig. 7
2014	Neovenatoridae Hendrickx and Mateus
2016	Neovenatoridae Csiki-Sava et al. p. 230

References

Benson R. B. J., Carrano M. T., et al (2010) A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic, Naturwissenschaften 97, 71-78 doi:10.1007/s00114-009-0614-x

Huene F. v. (1932) Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte [The fossil reptile order Saurischia, their development and history], Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie, serie 1 4 1-2, 1-361

Tatarinov L. P. (1964) Nadotryad Dinosauria. Dinozavry [Superorder Dinosauria. Dinosaurs], Osnovy Paleontologii [Fundamentals of Paleontology] 12, 523-589

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Paul G. S. (1988) , Predatory Dinosaurs of the World. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1-464

Holtz, Jr. T. R., Molnar R. E., et al (2004) Basal Tetanurae, The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 71-110

Carrano M. T., Benson R. B. J., et al (2012) The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10 2, 211-300 doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.630927

Hendrickx C., Mateus O. (2014) Abelisauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal and dentition-based phylogeny as a contribution for the indentification of isolated theropod teeth, Zootaxa 3759 1, 1-74

Csiki-Sava Z., Brusatte S. L., et al (2016) “Megalosaurus cf. superbus” from southeastern Romania: the oldest known Cretaceous carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and its implications for earliest Cretaceous Europe-Gondwana connections, Cretaceous Research 60, 221-238 doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.12.004

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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