Savannakhet [SEP] named after
Savannakhet
Savannakhet, officially named Kaysone Phomvihane (; ) and previously known as Khanthabouli (ຄັນທະບູລີ), is a city in western Laos and the capital of the Savannakhet Province. With a population of 120,000 (undated), it is the second-largest city in Laos, after Vientiane. The city is the birthplace of Kaysone Phomvihane, the first leader of Laos after the dissolution of the Kingdom of Laos from 1975 to 1992, and was named after him in 2005. Although the old French colonial quarter of the town,
its provenance from Laos. "Ichthyovenator" is the third spinosaurid named from Asia, after the Thai genus "Siamosaurus" in 1986, and the Chinese species ""Sinopliosaurus" fusuiensis" in 2009.
"Ichthyovenator" is represented by a single holotype or syntype series, designated under the specimen number MDS BK10-01 — 15. This fossil was found in 2010 in the Grès supérieurs Formation of the Savannakhet Basin in Savannakhet Province, in a layer which is probably Aptian in age. It consists of a partial skeleton