Aoniraptor
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Aoniraptor 6 m (19.7 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 6 m (19.7 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (96–91 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Aoniraptor is an extinct genus of megaraptoran theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Huincul Formation of Argentina. The genus contains a single species, Aoniraptor libertatem, known from a partial skeleton.
What we know
- Named by Motta et al., 2016.
- Body length estimated at about 6 m.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Aoniraptor — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.