Duriavenator

Dorset hunter

• Duria · Latin · Dorset (Latinised place reference to the county of Dorset, England)
• venator · Latin · hunter

The name combines a Latinised reference to Dorset, the English county where the fossils were found, with the Latin word for "hunter". It means "Dorset hunter" and describes a meat-eating theropod from that region. The species was first described in 1974 as a species of Megalosaurus (M. hesperis) and was given its own genus in 2008.

Named by

Benson

Year named

2008

Period

Middle Jurassic

Stage

Bajocian

Found in

Inferior Oolite Formation, Dorset, England, UK

A megalosaurid theropod. The type species is Duriavenator hesperis, originally named Megalosaurus hesperis by Waldman in 1974.