Named By: | Gohlich & Chiappe in 2006 |
Time Period: | Late Jurassic, 151.5 Ma |
Location: | Germany, Jura Mountains |
Size: | 70 centimetres long |
Diet: | Carnivore/Insectivore |
Fossil(s): | Single specimen of a juvenile, and a skin impression |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Coelurosauria | Compsognathidae | |
Juravenator is a genus of small (75 cm long) coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur, which lived in the area which would someday become the Jura mountains of Germany, about 151 or 152 million years ago. It is known from a single, juvenile specimen.