Stygivenator
| Stygivenator Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Cast of the holotype specimen of S. molnari, LACM 28471 | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Superfamily: | †Tyrannosauroidea |
| Clade: | †Eutyrannosauria |
| Genus: | †Stygivenator Olshevsky, Ford & Yamamoto, 1995 |
| Type species | |
| †Aublysodon molnari Paul, 1988 emend. Paul, 1989
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Stygivenator (meaning "Hell Creek hunter"), also known as the "Jordan theropod" is a dubious genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Hell Creek Formation, the type species is Stygivenator molnari. Originally considered a species of Aublysodon, another dubious genus, and then a juvenile of Tyrannosaurus, its specific identity can not presently be determined due to its poor preservation making it impossible to rule out an identity as either a specimen of Tyrannosaurus or Nanotyrannus.