Neovenator

Neovenator salerii

Neovenator is an extinct genus of carcharodontosaurian theropod dinosaur. It is known primarily from several skeletons found in the Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian–Barremian) Wessex Formation on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, southern England. The first remains of Neovenator were discovered in 1978 alongside those of the ornithopod Brighstoneus, after the collapse of part of Grange Chine. In 1996, Steve Hutt, David Martill and Michael Barker named the genus Neovenator. One species is known: the type species, N. salerii, after the Salero family who owned the site on which its remains were discovered. Between the type specimen and multiple referred specimens, roughly seventy per cent of Neovenator's skeleton is known. While incompletely known, it was likely around 7 metres (23 ft) in length, and probably weighed 1 metric ton (1.1 short tons), though a specimen possibly referrable to the genus indicates a larger body size of 10 metres (33 ft)