where colossal creatures ruled the seas and skies

it is now considered that it could be more versatile

Snout-tail length 258 mm

including its tail

Only two skulls are known

Saltriovenator zanellai Nyctosaurus where colossal creatures ruled theSaltriovenator zanellai is the only known species of the extinct genus Saltriovenator of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived at the beginning of the Jurassic period, approximately between 199 and 195 million years ago during the Sinemurian, in what is now Europe and more specifically in Italy . This carnivorous dinosaur was discovered in the Saltrio quarry, hence its name, and its discovery provided important data on the diversity of theropods