Dinosaurs · Large theropod

Afrovenator

Say it aff-ROW-ven-ah-tor. The name means ‘African hunter’.

Afrovenator beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of large theropods

Length: 9 m
Diet: Meat-eater
When: Early Cretaceous132 to 121 million years ago
Fossils found in: Niger
Named by: Sereno, Wilson, Larsson, Dutheil and Sues (1944)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Saurischia › Theropoda › Megalosauridae › Eustreptospondylinae

Where Afrovenator sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Large theropods. Big two-legged meat-eaters, such as Tyrannosaurus. See all 63

Lived at the same time

Jobaria · same country
Valdosaurus · same country
Lurdusaurus · same country
Nigersaurus · same country
Suchomimus · same country
Aragosaurus
Iguanodon
Beipiaosaurus

Other large theropods

Concavenator Early Cretaceous
Eotyrannus Early Cretaceous
Neovenator Early Cretaceous
Baryonyx Early Cretaceous
Utahraptor Early Cretaceous
Yutyrannus Early Cretaceous
Becklespinax Early Cretaceous
Fukuiraptor Early Cretaceous

Source: Afrovenator in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.