A Thick-Skulled Troodontid Theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico

Citation

Rivera-Sylva, H. E.; Aguillón-Martínez, M. C.; Flores-Ventura, J.; Sánchez-Uribe, I. E.; Guzmán-Gutiérrez, J. R.; Longrich, N. R. (2026). A Thick-Skulled Troodontid Theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico. Diversity 18(1). MDPI AG. doi:10.3390/d18010038

Names first published here

• Xenovenator genus
• Xenovenator espinosai species

Cited by genera

• Albertavenator

  Placed Albertavenator in new tribe Troodontini with Xenovenator.

• Dinevenator

  Rediagnosed the species as valid and tentatively assigned it to Xenovenator, recovering it as the sister taxon to Xenovenator espinosai within the tribe Troodontini.

• Latenivenatrix

  Recovers Stenonychosaurus and Latenivenatrix as a sister pair and finds Dinosaur Park frontal variation consistent with more than one species.

• Stenonychosaurus

  Recovers Stenonychosaurus and Latenivenatrix as a sister pair and finds Dinosaur Park frontal variation consistent with more than one species.

• Xenovenator