Concavenator is an extinct genus of theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 130 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period (Barremian age). The type species is C. corcovatus; Concavenator corcovatus means "Cuenca hunter with a hump".[2] The fossil was discovered in the Las Hoyas fossil site of Spain by paleontologists José Luis Sanz, Francisco Ortega and Fernando Escaso from the Autonomous University of Madrid[3] and the National University of Distance Education.[2]