Buitreraptor gonzalezorum
"La Buitrera seizer"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Buitreraptor 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (98–97 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dromaeosauridae Dinosauria Saurischia Theropoda Coelurosauria Sickle-clawed raptors: Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Utahraptor.
Buitreraptor (meaning “La Buitrera seizer”) is a genus of unenlagiine theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous of Argentina at the Candeleros Formation. Buitreraptor was described in 2005 and the type species is Buitreraptor gonzalezorum. It was rooster-sized and had a very elongated head with many small teeth.
What we know
- Named by Makovicky et al. 2005.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Buitreraptor — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.