Neovenator

Neovenator (nee-o-ven-a-tor) which means "new hunter" is a genus of allosauroid dinosaur. Since its discovery on the Isle of Wight, UK, it has become one of the best-known large carnivorous dinosaurs in Europe. Neovenator was at first considered possibly a new species of Megalosaurus.

Description
It measured approximately 7.5 meters (24.5 feet) in length, and was of a gracile build, weighting 1000-2000 kg.[1] Some fossils indicate a possible length of about 10 meters (33 feet), but these fossils are very fragmentary.[2] It lived during the Barremian stage (Early Cretaceous), about 125 million years ago.

Discovery and species
The first bones of the type species were discovered in 1978, in a plant debris bed within the variagated clays and marls of the Wessex Formation on the southwest coast of the Isle of Wight. It was much later (1989) that more bones from this specimen were found. Excavations undertaken by Dr Steve Hutt and his team have so far revealed approximately 70% of the skeleton.