Genus

Valid Extinct

Austroraptor

Novas et al. 2008

Austroraptor is a genus of unenlagiine dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived during the Campanian and Maastrichtian ages of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Argentina.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Carnivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial

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Selected unenlagiid traits: (A) maxilla and dentary of Austroraptor cabazai showing the rostral process of the maxilla, the anteroposteriorly elongated postantral wall, and the sub-parallel dorsal and ventral margins of the dentary. af, antorbital fenestra; mxf, maxillary fenestra; pan, postantral wall. © Federico L. Agnolin, Matias J. Motta, Federico Brissón Egli, Gastón Lo Coco & Fernando E. Novas · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Unranked clade

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Theropoda Unranked clade

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Neotheropoda Unranked clade

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Averostra Unranked clade

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Tetanurae Unranked clade

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Coelurosauria Unranked clade

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Maniraptora Unranked clade

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Paraves Unranked clade

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Deinonychosauria Infraorder

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Dromaeosauridae Family

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Unenlagiinae Subfamily

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Austroraptor Genus

Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇦🇷 Argentina

Geological formations

Allen

Temporal distribution

Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)

Species (1)

Austroraptor cabazai 72 Ma

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Bibliography

Original description

F. E. Novas, D. Pol, and J. I. Canale, J. D. Porfiri, J. O. Calvo. 2008. A bizarre Cretaceous theropod dinosaur from Patagonia and the evolution of Gondwanan dromaeosaurids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B DOI ↗

Bibliography (2)

P. J. Currie and A. Paulina Carabajal. 2012. A new specimen of Austroraptor cabazai, Pol, Canale, Porfiri and Calvo, 2008 (Dinosauria, Theropoda, Unenlagiidae) from the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Río Negro, Argentina. Ameghiniana 49(4):662-667 DOI ↗

Austroraptor

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