| Skorpiovenator | |
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| An artist's illustration of Skorpiovenator bustingorryi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Abelisauridae |
| Genus: | †Skorpiovenator Canale et al., 2008 |
| Species: | †S. bustingorryi |
| Binomial name | |
| Skorpiovenator bustingorryi Canale et al., 2008 | |
Skorpiovenator is a large carnivorous dinosaur, known as one of the abelisaurids. It was described by Canale, Scanferla, Agnolin and Novas in 2009. It is known from only one nearly complete specimen, missing only most of the forelimbs and parts of the tail.
Description
Skorpiovenator was a 6 meter (20 feet) long abelisaurid that inhabited the Huincul Formation of Argentina, contemporary of the carcharodontosaurid Mapusaurus, another abelisaurid named Ilokelesia, and a giant
Skorpiovenator's appearance from Planet Dinosaur
sauropod named Argentinosaurus. This dinosaur was named not by its diet, but by its specimen being surrounded by a bustling colony of scorpions. Like some its relatives, such as Carnotaurus, Skorpiovenator had a short, deep robust skull which was typical for an abelisaurid, along with very short arms which could not be useful when fighting.
In Popular Culture
- Skorpiovenator makes an appearance in BBC Planet Dinosaur, claimed as a nest raider, perhaps feeding on eggs from Argentinosaurus. Then later scavenging a carcass of a fully grown Argentinosaurus & return from time to time while the Mapusaurus had their fill