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zenji kotodama: spectrovenator

first discovered in brazil (2020)

lived during the early cretaceous period

genus of basal abelisaurid theropod dinosaur

the type specimen, s. ragei, is 1.42-2.2 metres long

spectrovenator means "ghost hunter" due to the unexpected discovery of its relatively complete skeleton under the holotype of tapuiasaurus!!

check out the purple depiction, like zenjis hair!!!! :D

life reconstruction of spectrovenator in watercolors by christopher dipiazza (2024) (website: https://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2024/10/spectrovenator-beast-of-week.html)

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Saltriovenator at sunset picking up a washed up Cenoceras Gastornis Spectrovenator hunting a Tapuiasaurus in the rain moments before disaster. A pair of Pavlodaria orlovi bucks have some "quality time".

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Spectrovenator vs Ceratosuchops

Spectrovenator (left) or Ceratosuchops (right)?

Spectrovenator

Ceratosuchops

Voting ended onMar 9, 2023

Factfiles:

Spectrovenator ragei

Artwork by @i-draws-dinosaurs, written by @zygodactylus

Name Meaning: Rage’s Ghost Hunter

Time: 121 million years ago (Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous)

Location: Quiricó Formation, Minas Gerais, Brazil

A lot of interesting Late Cretaceous dinosaurs don’t have clear evolutionary transitions - in many ways, until recent discoveries, they just seem to appear as their ultimate (pre-extinction) forms in highly complex ecosystems. Spectrovenator is another discovery helping to better understand the transition from the Early to the Late Cretaceous, as a transitional member of the Abelisaurs, showing how the distinct characteristics of that group first appeared. Known from a skull, parts of the spine, and leg bones, the only thing we don’t really know about it is if it had normal or tiny arms! It had weakly developed lower jaw muscles, unlike later abelisaurs; and it retained many of the ancestral characteristics of the Ceratosaur group. It had a weaker bite force, indicating that a feature of Abelisaurid evolution was an increase in biting force over time. The skull was more elongate as well, and while its body was robust, it wasn’t quite as sausage-like as later forms, indicating that cursoriality and efficient turning were also later innovations. Found underneath a skeleton of Tapuiasaurus, a large sauropod, it is clear that it was already eating similar large prey as its later relatives. Living in a lake-filled environment, other neighbors included a wide variety of fish, as well as potential Rebbachisaurids and Carcharodontosaurids.

Ceratosuchops inferodios

Artwork by @i-draws-dinosaurs, written by @zygodactylus

Name Meaning: Horned Crocodile Faced Hell Heron

Time: ~128 million years ago (Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous)

Location: Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight, England

Say hello to the Hell Heron! Ceratosuchops is one of many new Spinosaurs described recently, showcasing the sheer diversity of this group as well as their much larger spread than previously believed. Ceratosuchops, previously thought to be just Baryonyx, is one of such new taxa that point to the entire group originating in Europe, a piece of their evolutionary puzzle not previously well known. Ceratosuchops was about 8.5 meters long, and had a long crocodile-like skull, with a horn on the top of it (hence its name). As a spinosaur, it would have probably been an aquatic stalker (you know, like a heron) - waiting near bodies of water for food, and snatching it up before it could swim away. Just, the difference between Ceratosuchops and actual herons, well, this was a big heron. It probably wouldn’t have had a sail, though it is possible it may have had a ridge like its close relative Suchomimus. It lived in a heavily river-filled environment, giving it a wide variety of locations to choose from for hunting. Besides a vast diversity of invertebrates, sharks, ray-finned fish, salamanders, lizards, turtles, many kinds of Neosuchians, Plesiosaurs, mammals, and pterosaurs, Ceratosuchops lived alongside other dinosaurs such as Hypsilophodon, Brighstoneus, Iguanodon, Mantellisaurus, Valdosaurus, Polacanthus, Eucamerotus, Oplosaurus, Ornithopsis, Aristosuchus, Calamosaurus, Calamospondylus, Eotyrannus, Neovenator, Ornithodesmus, Yaverlandia, Vectiraptor, Thecocoelurus, and even another spinosaur, Riparovenator!

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