Austroraptor orstroh-RAPTER
"the south wind"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Austroraptor 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (76.5–68 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina · Utah, USA
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dromaeosauridae Dinosauria Saurischia Theropoda Coelurosauria Sickle-clawed raptors: Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Utahraptor.
Austroraptor ( ) is a genus of unenlagiine theropod dinosaur that lived during the Campanian and Maastrichtian ages of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Argentina.
Austroraptor was a large, moderately-built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore, measuring around 5 – 6 m long and weighing up to 300 – 520 kg. It is one of the largest paravians known, with only large dromaeosaurids such as Achillobator and Utahraptor approaching a similar size.
What we know
- Named by Novas et al., 2008.
- Body length estimated at about 5 m.
- Fossils found in Argentina and Utah, USA.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Austroraptor — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.