German paleontologists completed a description of a large predatory dinosaur, which was found in 1998 in an abandoned career near Minden in north-western Germany. The lizard was the biggest predator in these places during the juror period.

Although the skeleton retained only a few bones and a incomplete skull, scientists were able to successfully re-establish its image and identify lifestyles and kinship. The largest dinosaur of Germany belonged to a group of megalosaurid and screamed on the seaside, feeding fish and possibly throwing a beache on the beach.

Wiehenvenator albati. Reconstruction Joschua Knuppel

As modern paleontologists know, dinosaurs have never been good sailors. Ithiosaurs, plesiosaurus, mosaurs and other floating reptiles are only distant relatives. However, nothing prevented the dinosaurs from getting into water from time to time, so their accumulated residues can sometimes be found in the sediments of the mesozoic seas. This was also the case with a new predator, whose skeleton was preserved by the mountains of the age of law, which had been abandoned in the archipelago area of 165 million years ago at the site of northern Germany.

In 1998, the Friedrich Albat Geologist (Friedrich Albat), looking at a bunch of Wiehengebirge hills south of Minden, discovered the remnants of the giant thermoda that was immune to solid breed. The excavations, which continued from 1999 to 2001, allowed scientists to extract all remaining bones and begin their studies, which were led by a researcher at the University of Ludwig-Maximiliana Oliver Rohat (Oliver W.M. Rauhut).

Although the residues are only separate bones, they were very well maintained. The details of their construction clearly indicate that it is a new species and a form of megalosaurid (Megalosauridae) - major predatory Dinosaurs of the legal period♪ They called a newcomer Wiehenvenator albati, after Wiehen hills and Dr. Albat.