Lajasvenator

Lajasvenator, whose name honors the Argentine city of Las Lajas, is a carcharodontosaurid dinosaur from Neuquén Province's Mulichinco Formation. Its only species is Lajasvenator ascheriae. At roughly 3.5 meters long, it was a relatively small carcharodontosaurid, measuring just over half the length of Concavenator. As the oldest known South American carcharodontosaur from the Cretaceous, this predator provides crucial insight into the evolutionary history of its group.