Xinjiangovenator
genus · Rauhut and Xu 2005 · accepted · extinct
1 descendant taxa · 1 fossil sites · 1 formations · 1 countries
Lived when
Cretaceous
137.05–100.5 million years ago
Found where
1 country
1 rock formations
Fossil record
1 sites
1 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 37 million years, from 137.05 to 100.5 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 100.5 million years old — that is roughly 335 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Xinjiangovenator was named in 2005 (Rauhut and Xu 2005) — 21 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 1 country and 1 named rock formations.
- 1 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).