Buitreraptor gonzalezorum Buitreraptor
"La Buitrera seizer"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Buitreraptor 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (98–97 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Carnivore
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.