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Microvenator

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Microvenator
Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous
Restoration of Microvenator in brooding position
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Microvenator
Binomial name
Microvenator celer
Ostrom, 1970

Microvenator (meaning "small hunter") was a small, fast-moving, long-legged, meat-eating, bipedal dinosaur about 4 ft. (1.2 m) long, weighing perhaps 6.5-14 pounds (3-6.4 kg). This turkey-sized predator was an advanced theropod that lived during the early Cretaceous period, about 119 million to 113 million years ago, in what is now Montana (USA).