Philovenator ( meaning "Love Hunter") is a troodontid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous Inner Mongolia. During the 1988 Canada-China Dinosaur Project, scientists found the fossil of the hind leg of a troodontid in Mongolia. In 1994, Philip John Currie classified Philovenator as a Saurornithoides . Philovenator was later proven as it's own genus.