Neovenatoridae

Neovenatorids; Temporal range: ; Early Cretaceous-Late Cretaceous, 128–70 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Restoration of Neovenator
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Theropoda
Superfamily:	Allosauroidea
(unranked):	Carcharodontosauria
Family:	Neovenatoridae; Benson, Carrano & Brusatte, 2010
Genera
	Aerosteon; Australovenator; Chilantaisaurus; Fukuiraptor; Megaraptor; Neovenator (type); Orkoraptor; Rapator;

Neovenatoridae is a family of large carnivorous dinosaurs. The group is a branch of the allosauroids, a large group of carnosaurs that also includes the sinraptorids, carcharodontosaurids, and allosaurids. Neovenatorids are the latest-surviving allosauroids; at least one neovenatorid, Orkoraptor, lived near the end of the Mesozoic era, dating to the early Maastrichtian stage of the latest Cretaceous period, about 70 million years ago.^[1]

Classification

The cladogram presented here follows the 2010 analysis by Benson, Carrano and Brusatte.^[1] Another study published later in 2010 also found the Australian theropod Rapator to be a megaraptoran extremely similar to Australovenator.^[2]

Neovenatoridae

Neovenator

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Chilantaisaurus

Megaraptora

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	Australovenator

	?Rapator

	Fukuiraptor

?Orkoraptor

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	Aerosteon

	Megaraptor

References

^ ^a ^b Benson, R.B.J., Carrano, M.T and Brusatte, S.L. (2010). "A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic." Naturwissenschaften, 97(1):71–78. doi:10.1007/s00114-009-0614-x
^ Agnolin, Ezcurra, Pais and Salisbury, (2010). "A reappraisal of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: Evidence for their Gondwanan affinities." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 8(2): 257-300.

[bensonetal2010-1] Benson, R.B.J., Carrano, M.T and Brusatte, S.L. (2010). "A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic." Naturwissenschaften, 97(1):71–78. doi:10.1007/s00114-009-0614-x

[agnolin2010-2] Agnolin, Ezcurra, Pais and Salisbury, (2010). "A reappraisal of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: Evidence for their Gondwanan affinities." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 8(2): 257-300.

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