Albertavenator

Albertavenator (meaning "Alberta hunter") is a genus of small troodontid theropod dinosaur, known from the early Maastrichtian in the Cretaceous period. It contains a single species, A. curriei, named after paleontologist Phil Currie, based on a partial left frontal found in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta during the 1990s.^[1][2] Albertavenator's discovery indicates that small dinosaur diversity may be underestimated at present due to the difficulty in identifying species from fragmentary remains.^[3]

Life restoration of the head

Albertavenator Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 71.5–71 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Illustration of the holotype frontal of Albertavenator
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Family:	†Troodontidae
Genus:	†Albertavenator Evans et al., 2017
Type species
†Albertavenator curriei Evans et al., 2017

See also

• Dinosaurs portal

• Timeline of troodontid research
• 2017 in archosaur paleontology