Pandoravenator (meaning "Pandora hunter", after the type locality, "Caja de Pandora", i.e. Pandora's box) is a genus of basal tetanurantheropoddinosaur from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian to Tithonian) of central Patagonia (Chubut Province). Fossils (in the form of a fragmentally preserved postcranial skeleton) of this dinosaur were discovered in the sediments of the Cañadón Calcáreo Formation and were scientifically described in 2017 by paleontologists and . The type and only known species is Pandoravenator fernandezorum.[1]
