The oldest large-sized predatory dinosaur comes from the Italian Alps
Thursday, December 20, 2018 - 08:40
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Early Jurassic predatory dinosaurs are very rare, and mostly small in size. Saltriovenator zanellai, a new genus and species is the oldest known ceratosaurian, and the world's largest (1 ton) predatory dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian, ~198 Mya).